He writes the CSSD does not want to shoulder responsibility for the fall of the coalition government whose member parties have internal problems, because it fears that any overhasty move might boomerang on it. The CSSD has decided to wait for the government coalition to decay from inside, Mitrofanov writes. He says, however, this plan is not to the liking of the emerging parallel structure of the CSSD, the "Society of the Friends of (former party chairman and PM) Milos Zeman" who coin "dialogue between the right and left." This means that the society would like a new form of the Zeman's allies plan to unseat Paroubek as Czech CSSD head - press ...
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Czech Communists to back CSSD's no confidence vote proposal ... opposition agreement with the now senior ruling Civic Democratic Party (ODS), Mitrofanov writes. He adds that it can be assumed that the society organisers would require the ODS's support for Zeman as president in exchange. It is to be regretted that Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg was not more consistent and less generous in the case of deputy prime minister Jiri Cunek, chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (KDU-CSL) because his stand on the planned U.S.
radar on Czech soil would now be considered a greater guarantee as well as a principled call on lawmakers, Zbynek Petracek writes in Lidove noviny. He comments on Schwarzenberg's statement that he would resign if the ratification of the treaties with the United States on the radar base were not successful in parliament. Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek does not seem to be looking towards a necessary confrontation with his opponents within his Civic Democratic Party (ODS) with any contagious optimism, Jiri Leschtina writes in Hospodarske noviny. When he was asked about his future, he said that either something will happen that will completely change the Czech political map, or he will not harness his nerves and will end in politics in a matter of seconds, Leschtina reminds. Leschtina write the former alternative is extremely improbable, the other one quite imaginable. Jiri Hanak writes in Pravo that the U.S. radar base on Czech soil is a serious matter and that he considers its construction a matter of the Czech Republic's anchoring in the port of the sole relevant world force. Hanak writes that he himself would prefer European security, but he would have to know something about it. But it hardly exists on paper, and yet not in a good shape.
(Ceske Noviny)
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