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radar base rises - poll ... the Senate that will again try to elect a future president. Incumbent Czech President Vaclav Klaus, the ODS's official presidential candidate, is the favourite of the elections and the ODS is seeking to gain the votes of the KDU-CSL lawmakers for him. Many of the KDU-CSL lawmakers supported Klaus's opponent, economist Jan Svejnar, in the first election on February 8-9 in which no candidate was elected. "Jiri Cunek is the chairman of our coalition partner, the KDU-CSL. His slightly forced departure from the government was natural then. Today his return is only a question of whether his party wants it. If the KDU-CSL wants to have its chairman in the government, it will have him there," Topolanek said. He said the KDU-CSL supported Cunek's return to the government. "I consider it natural. As Martin Bursik (chairman of the junior governing Green Party) is in the government, it will be good if the KDU-CSL chairman were in it as well," Topolanek added. Cunek resigned as a deputy prime minister and local development minister in November. He explained his step by the fact that the supreme state attorney re-opened his case of suspected corruption. From November 2006, Cunek was suspected of having accepted a half-a-million bribe from H&B Real real estate company in 2002, when he was mayor of Vsetin, north Moravia. Speculation appeared in the media last year that the Christian Democrats could connect their demand for Cunek's return to the government with their support for the re-election of Klaus as Czech president. However, the Greens disagree with his return. Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg, who was nominated to the post by the Greens, even said he would leave the cabinet if Cunek returned.
(Ceske Noviny)
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