Ex-president Havel says successor Klaus has “indefensible need to provoke”

Former Czech president Václav Havel says his successor Václav Klaus has an “indefensible need to provoke”. Mr Havel made the comments about his long-standing political rival in an interview for the magazine Týden, adding that he did not believe there was cold calculation behind what he called Mr Klaus’s constant need for confrontation. The present and former presidents, regarded as the two most important Czech politicians of the post-communist era, disagree on a number of issues.