Totally tattooed professor nicknamed Avatar is now THIRD in race to be Czech president

[Len Colby]

Totally tattooed professor nicknamed Avatar is now THIRD in race to be Czech president

• Tattooed presidential candidate Vladimir Franz may become kingmaker
  
• Third place for this weekend's elections after poster-less campaign
  
• Performing arts professor, nicknamed 'Avatar', has no political experience
  

By SARA MALM

PUBLISHED: 13:57 GMT, 9 January 2013 | UPDATED: 09:39 GMT, 11 January 2013

With no political experience and little knowledge of economics, performing arts professor Vladimir Franz was already an unlikely candidate for the Czech Republic presidential election.

The fact that 90 per cent of his body is covered in tattoos makes it even more surprising that not only is he standing for election - he currently stands third in the polls.

One in nine voters are believed to be planning on backing the 53-year-old opera composer and painter in this weekend's presidential elections after a £15,000 election campaign that didn't even include posters.

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