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Leftist Zeman wins Czech presidency, trumps aristocrat

Czechs chose leftist ex-premier Milos Zeman as their new president in Saturday’s runoff in the EU republic’s first direct election, defeating Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg, an aristocrat whose Sex Pistols-inspired social media campaign fell flat. The burly, silver-haired Zeman garnered 54.82-percent support with virtually all votes counted, against 45.17 percent…