Kuchtova, who will run for the post of party leader against current leader Martin Bursik, wants the party to decide in a team, to have pluralism of views and its meetings to be transparent. The official draft party rules that differ from Kuchtova's text were approved by the party leadership on Thursday evening. The team headed by Bursik wants the decision-making process to be more efficient and more readable for the voters. Kuchtova said she had the feeling the party was closing itself and suffered from centralism under Bursik's leadership. She said Bursik's proposal wanted the meetings of party leadership not to be accessible to all party members. "This is absolute nonsense Czech PM praises environment minister for compromise policy ...
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Czech press survey ... in a party whose programme says even meetings of local authorities should be open," Kuchtova told CTK. There is the novelty that the national council will lose its own leadership and it will be subordinate to the party leadership. Bursik said this would ensure continuity of the decision-making process as the party leadership had direct mandate from the congress. The change is to eliminate the "two-headed" character or the Greens, Bursik said. Kuchtova is against the proposal.
The two bodies have been often locked in various disputes such as over the planned U.S. radar base in the Czech Republic and the health reform. The Greens have been split on two factions headed by Bursik and Kuchtova for months. The existing party rules allow for the existence of two power centres. Bursik dominates the narrow party leadership, while his critics have the upper hand in the national council.
(Ceske Noviny)
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