Filip: photographs affair shows biggest parties planning to divide economic influence in coalition

Meanwhile, the head of the Communist Party, Vojtěch Filip, has said the fact members of the Civic Democrats and Social Democrats were photographed meeting lobbyists in Italy shows that the parties are planning to divide influence over lucrative state companies by forming a coalition after general elections in October. Political analysts think that scenario is unlikely, the Czech News Agency reported. From 1998 to 2002 the Social Democrats and Civic Democrats worked together under a so-called “opposition agreement”.