Václav Havel Independent Indirect presidential elections were held in the Czech Republic on 26 January 1993 to elect the first president of the newly independent country.

The president was elected by the members of the Czech Republic Parliament, with Václav Havel emerging as the winner.

[1][2] The election was complicated only by attacks of Republicans against Havel and by bomb threat to the Parliament.

Havel received 109 votes and thus won the election in the first round.

Havel was inaugurated on 2 February 1993 and became the first president of the Czech Republic.