He has managed to survive all scandals and unpleasant affairs, including the planned health reform, proposed by the Civic Democratic Party (ODS), and the widely unpopular U.S.
radar base in the Czech Republic, Hekrdla writes. Now, the position of Bursik, too, is shaky. In reaction to an expert report advocating the use of nuclear energy in the Czech Republic, Bursik has several times said that if the government decides to go nuke, he will leave it, he adds. This might shake the government, but not the Greens who, when demonstrating against the radar, shout "Bursik, out!" Is he now ready to meet their wishes? This does not seem to be probable, Hekrdla writes. There is the worse problem, namely the core of the Puerto Rico to Clinton but Obama leads ...
Autumn elections to shake ODS rule - Czech CSSD leader Paroubek ... Greens' political programme that is very little understandable for the public, he adds. It was funny when former president Vaclav Havel said recently that as Czechoslovakia would not have been established without the USA, it must be eternally bound to it and never discuss about the radar, Vaclav Belohradsky writes in Pravo. In fact, after World War Two, similar arguments were used in favour of the Soviet Union, he stresses. No Czech state lasted for more than twenty years since 1918. German and Austrian claims are implicitly destabilising, Belohardsky writes. Hence the search of the Czech Republic, similarly to other EU newcomers, for an omnipotent protector that would serve as the prevailing principle of its foreign policy, Belohradsky writes. Czech senior opposition Social Democrat (CSSD) chairman Jiri Paroubek is certainly innocent, Jaroslav Plesl writes in Lidove noviny ironically about Paroubek's dispute with former Social Democrat deputy Petr Wolf who said that Paroubek blackmailed him and that Paroubek does not run the party in a democratic fashion. It is a good thing that Paroubek wants to turn to the court. Truth will certainly surface there, Plesl writes. The court will certainly rule that Paroubek is a democrat with no authoritarian leanings, he adds. The court will certainly rule that Paroubek let Social Democrat deputies vote according to their own conviction and never forced them to vote for Jan Svejnar if they preferred President Vaclav Klaus in the February presidential elections, Plesl writes about the reluctance of some Social Democrats to follow the Social Democrat official line. The court will certainly rule that Paroubek has never collected any compromising information on his people. Paroubek may have known about the dubious state subsidies for Wolf's firms long ago, but only because he browsed the webpage of the Supreme Auditing Office, only finding Wolf's name in it by chance, Plesl writes sarcastically. Paroubek certainly did not assign anyone to collect the information. In fact, he has no such people. Petr Dimun has no task but to help modernise the party and Jaroslav Tvrdik, a former defence minister and now the Social Democrat election manager, makes nothing but holds umbrella above Paroubek, Plesl writes about the two men who have been mentioned in connection with the production of alleged compromising files against the people with whom Paroubek is at odds.
(Ceske Noviny)
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