Question: Who among nine individuals secured enough popular signatures or support of parliamentarians to become official candidates for the Czech presidential election, 2013 and serves as a Member of Parliament for Prague and as Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Chamber of Deputies?

Context articles: Barack Obama presidential primary campaign, 2008
Foreign policy of Japan
Árni Þór Sigurðsson
Marie Stiborová
Czech presidential election, 2013
President of Iran
Cyril Svoboda
Vladimír Franz
Karel Schwarzenberg
Czech presidential election debates, 2013

On February 10, 2007, Barack Obama, then junior United States Senator from Illinois, announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United States in Springfield, Illinois.
 On June 3, 2008, he secured enough delegates to become the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party for the 2008 presidential election.
 He was the first African-American in American History to be nominated by a major party.
 On November 4, 2008, Obama won the presidential election to become the 44th President of the United States, succeeding George W. Bush.
The primary responsibility for the Japanese foreign policy, as determined by the 1947 constitution, is exercised by the cabinet and subject to the overall supervision of the National Diet.
 The prime minister is required to make periodic reports on foreign relations to the Diet, whose upper and lower houses each have a foreign affairs committee.
 Each committee reports on its deliberations to plenary sessions of the chamber to which it belongs.
 Idlmm committees are formed occasionally to consider special questions.
 Diet members have the right to raise pertinent policy questions—officially termed interpellations—to the minister of foreign affairs and the prime minister.
 Treaties with foreign countries require ratification by the Diet.
 As head of state, the emperor performs the ceremonial function of receiving foreign envoys and attesting to foreign treaties ratified by the Diet.
Árni Þór Sigurðsson (born 30 July 1960 in Reykjavik) is an Icelandic Ambassador.
 Since May 1st 2015 he is Ambassador for the Arctic (Senior Arctic Official), representing Iceland in the Arctic Council.
 He was member of parliament of the Althing, the Icelandic parliament 2007-2014, for the Left-Green Movement.
 He was Deputy Speaker of the Althing from 2009-2010 and again 2012-2013.
 Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Althingi Feb. 2009 - April 2013.
 Chairman of the Parliamentary Delegation to EFTA/EEA 2009-2013.
 Co-Chairman of the Iceland-EU Joint Parliamentary Committee.
 He was a delegate to the Nordic Council 2010-2013 and Chairman of the Nordic Council's Standing Committee of Culture and Education.
 Árni Þór held a number of Parliamentary Committee posts, incl.
 on budget and finance, economy, environment, constitutional affairs, procedural affairs etc.
 He was chair, vicechair and acting chair of the Parliamentary Group 2009-2012.
Marie Stiborová (born 2 February 1950) is a Czech university lecturer, politician, former member of Czech National Council and Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic.
 She was also Communist presidential candidate in Czech presidential election, 1993.
 She later became the leader of reformist wing within KSČM and established Left Bloc party,
The first direct presidential election in the Czech Republic was held on 11–12 January 2013.
 No candidate received a majority of the votes in the first round, so a second round runoff election was held on 25–26 January.
 Nine individuals secured enough popular signatures or support of parliamentarians to become official candidates for the office.
 Miloš Zeman (SPOZ) and Karel Schwarzenberg (TOP 09) qualified for the second round of the election.
The President of Iran (Persian: رییس‌جمهور ایران "Rayis Jomhur-e Irān") is the head of government of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
 The President is the highest popularly elected official in Iran (however, the president is still required to gain the Leader’s official approval before being sworn in before the Parliament, and the Leader also has the power to dismiss the elected president anytime).
 The President carries out the decrees, and answers to the Supreme Leader of Iran, who functions as the country's head of state.
 Unlike the executive in other countries, the President of Iran does not have full control over anything, as these are ultimately under the control of the Supreme Leader.
 Chapter IX of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran sets forth the qualifications for presidential candidates.
 The procedures for presidential election and all other elections in Iran are outlined by the Supreme Leader.
 The President functions as the executive of the decrees and wishes of the Supreme Leader.
 These include signing treaties and other agreements with foreign countries and international organizations, with Supreme Leader's approval; administering national planning, budget, and state employment affairs, as decreed by the Supreme Leader.
 The President also appoints the ministers, subject to the approval of Parliament, and the Supreme Leader who can dismiss or reinstate any of the ministers at any time, regardless of the president or parliament's decision.
 Iran’s regional policy is directly controlled by the office of the Supreme Leader with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ task limited to protocol and ceremonial occasions.
 All of Iran’s ambassadors to Arab countries, for example, are chosen by the Quds Corps, which directly reports to the Supreme Leader.
Cyril Svoboda (born November 25, 1956 in Prague) is a Czech politician, leader of the Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party between 2001–2003 and 2009–2010 and a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic (1998–2010).
 During his political career he held several ministerial positions, most notably he was the Deputy Prime Minister (July 2002 – August 2004) and Minister of Foreign Affairs (July 2002–September 2006).
 He founded Diplomatic Academy in Prague in 2011 and is currently lecturing at several universities in Prague.
Vladimír Franz (born May 25, 1959 in Prague, Czechoslovakia), is a Czech composer, painter, university scholar and occasional journalist, poet and playwright.
 Since mid-1980s he has composed stage music for more than 150 theatre performances - for many of them he was awarded national-level prizes -, he has also composed a symphony, several operas, oratorios, a musical, ballet, as well as film music and music for documentaries and radio plays.
 His second main area of activities in the field of arts is represented by painting.
 Since 1991 he has been a lecturer at the Prague's Faculty of Theatre.
 In 2012 he was also a registered candidate in the 2013 Czech presidential election.
 The attention of local as well as world media has been attracted to him usually due to his extraordinarily extensive tattoo.
Karel Schwarzenberg (] or Karel, Prince of Schwarzenberg, in Czech "Karel Jan Nepomuk Josef Norbert Bedřich Antonín Vratislav Menas kníže ze Schwarzenbergu", in German "Karl Johannes Nepomuk Josef Norbert Friedrich Antonius Wratislaw Menas Fürst zu Schwarzenberg"), 12th Prince Schwarzenberg (First Majorat) and 7th Prince Schwarzenberg (Second Majorat), Duke of Krumlov (born 10 December 1937) is a Czech politician, former leader of the TOP 09 Party and its candidate for President of the Czech Republic in the 2013 election.
 Currently, he serves as a Member of Parliament for Prague and as Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Czech Parliament.
The 2013 Czech presidential election debates were a series of debates held for the Czech presidential election, 2013.