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10/30/2013
Meanwhile, Mr. Sobotka has begun negotiating with other party leaders on the formation of a government, meeting the leader of the Christian Democrats, Pavel Bělobrádek on Wednesday. He is also due to sit down with Andrej Babiš of ANO. As part of the move against him Mr. Sobotka was voted off the Social Democrats’ negotiating team. However, it has since fallen apart as the power struggle continues and a new team should be created on Thursday.
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10/30/2013
The leader of the party that came second in the elections, ANO 2011, says they would “tolerate” a government of which they were not a member, if the cabinet adopted some of their policies. ANO chief Andrej Babiš made the comments in an interview for Czech Television on Wednesday. The Slovak-born billionaire said his party did not wish to participate directly in government, but added they would consider their options. In their first general election, ANO took over 18 percent of the vote.
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10/30/2013
The mayor of Prague, Tomáš Hudeček, and other councilors who are being investigated in connection with the overpriced Opencard electronic card system will not resign even if they appear in court. A representative of the mayor’s party, TOP 09, made the statement on Wednesday. Mr. Hudeček says that the police have made mistakes in their investigation of the matter. He had previously that he would quit if charges were pressed. Along with nine other current and former Civic Democrat and TOP 09 councilors, he is accused of breach of trust and breach of competition regulations. The Opencard is used for public transport and other services.
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10/30/2013
Radovan Suchánek is set to become a judge at the Czech Constitutional Court, after the Senate approved his nomination on Wednesday. Mr. Suchánek serves as a legal advisor to the Social Democrats but said after winning approval that he would immediately quit the party. He told senators that he would not rule on issues in which he could be accused of bias. At 40 years of age, Mr. Suchánek will be the court’s youngest justice.
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10/30/2013
Clarinet player Ferdinand Havlík has died at the age of 85. The musician was one of the founders of the Semafor musical theatre where following the early death of another of the cultural institution’s creators, Jiří Šlitr, he became its main composer. The Brno-born Mr. Havlík also set up his own Swing Band in the 1970s and wrote music for films.
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10/30/2013
The eight edition of the annual KomiksFEST! gets underway in Prague on Wednesday. This year the festival will include an exhibition of work by the well-known Czech comics artist and writer Jiří Grus, a theatre performance relating to the mythical Prague WWII superhero Pérák, films, workshops and several other events.
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10/29/2013
The ANO party of food magnate Andrej Babiš and the Christian Democrats say they are ready to hold coalition talks with the embattled leader of the Social Democrats Bohuslav Sobotka, whose party won the elections by a small margin. This is seen as a significant show of support for Mr. Sobotka whose position at the head of the party has been challenged by party rivals close to President Miloš Zeman. Following a vote by the party’s executive leadership Mr. Sobotka was dropped from the party’s negotiating team on Sunday, but he has refused to be sidelined from the talks saying he has the mandate to represent the party and would lead parallel negotiations if necessary.
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10/29/2013
Social Democratic Party deputies have elected Jeronym Tejc head of the party’s deputies’ group in the lower house. Mr. Tejc was elected by 30 out of 50 votes. The newly elected group leader is perceived as a member of the party’s pro-Zeman faction and a critic of party leader Bohuslav Sobotka. Tuesday’s vote was seen as a test of the balance of power within the divided party. Meanwhile, the Social Democrats negotiating team, which crumbled under pressure on Tuesday is to be elected anew on Thursday at a meeting of the party leadership. Deputy Michal Hasek, Sobotka’s main party rival, has said he would like to head the team.
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10/29/2013
The centre-right TOP 09, which is going into the opposition after receiving less than 12 percent of the vote in early general elections, has called on the winning parties to lose no time in setting up a government. The party’s deputy chair Miroslav Kalousek expressed shock over the power struggle that broke out in the Social Democratic Party less than 24 hours after its election win, saying that the party should get its act together and accept responsibility for running the country.
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10/29/2013
Experts cited by the CTK news agency agree that a coalition between the Social Democrats, Christian Democrats and ANO would not bring about significant economic changes. They consider such a coalition as the only viable option and note that the direct or indirect participation of ANO in government would effectively prevent the Social Democrats from raising taxes. The three parties would also most likely commit to keeping the deficit in public finances below 3 percent of GDP, experts told the CTK news agency.
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