The information from the four MPs who have left the CSSD since the 2006 general election was confirmed by others who continue to be party members, the paper says. "They have files, they monitor conversations, they try to be prepared," a CSSD MP requesting anonymity told HN. This view was supported by two other CSSD MPs, the paper writes. Petr Wolf, the most recent defector MP, said on Monday CSSD leader Jiri Paroubek blackmailed him with Czech Social Democrat MPs trust leaders after Wolf's departure ...
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Czech CSSD committee nods to new vote of no confidence in govt ... sensitive information during the presidential election in February. Wolf said Paroubek had told him that if he did not support Social Democrat candidate Jan Svejnar, he would disclose the information on some alleged irregularities in his firm. Svejnar was eventually defeated by President Vaclav Klaus, nominated by the Civic Democratic Party (ODS).
Klaus was also supported by MP Evzen Snitily who was expelled from the CSSD because of it. "I heard they has a file on me, but I cannot prove it. Some people told me," Wolf told HN. The MP who have demanded anonymity confirmed that there was a file on him and a number of others, too. "But if we said it, we would be sacked," he said. The daily Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD) released the information that Wolf's company allegedly abused a state subsidy immediately after Wolf left the CSSD deputies' group ten days ago, the paper notes. MfD admitted on Monday that it got information from the CSSD, HN writes. Shortly after Snitily left the CSSD, CSSD former interior minister Frantisek Bublan claimed that Snitily owned a house in eastern Bohemia under strange conditions. MP Milos Melcak, who was expelled from the CSSD after allowing the formation of a centre-right government in January 2007, claimed that he was monitored and wiretapped. CSSD spokeswoman Kveta Kocova dismissed the speculation that the party gathers compromising information on its members. "We don't have any information on our MPs," she told the paper. Miroslav Slouf, lobbyist and former aide to CSSD ex-chairman Milos Zeman who is now in sharp conflict with the current party leaders, said several CSSD MPs told him that the CSSD leadership asked them during the presidential election "how it is possible that they are in phone contact with me." Somebody had to acquire the list of the phone calls from the telephone operator, Slouf says. HN writes that a member of the CSSD leadership confessed that he was not certain everything was in order. He told the paper he would not release any information now because he cannot prove it. The names of Jaroslav Tvrdik, manager of the CSSD election campaigns, Petr Dimun, adviser to Paroubek, and Miroslav Antl, CSSD candidate for senator and former state attorney, have been mentioned in connection with the production of alleged compromising files, the paper writes. However, all three above men dismiss the allegation, saying they cooperate with the CSSD leadership on a completely different level, HN writes.
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