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11/01/2006
The outgoing cabinet of Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek has approved a proposal by the Interior Ministry which will allow approximately 170 people of Czech origin living in Kazakhstan to move back to the Czech Republic. Mr. Topolanek says that the program is the second part of a repatriation program begun in 1994. The Kazak-Czech families that the Ministry of the Interior intends to invite will join the approximately 650 Czechs from Kazakhstan who relocated back to the Czech Republic in the last years of the 1990s. The Ministry of Interior says that it decided to extend the resettlement invitations because economic and security conditions of ethnic Czechs in Kazakhstan have grown increasingly worse in recent years. The remaining roughly 170 people (about 50 families) comprising the Czech community in Kazakhstan are the descendents of those who left Bohemia in the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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11/01/2006
An eleven year old girl has died as a result of an accident at a railway crossing in Prostejov, north Moravia. Another girl at the scene suffered serious injuries. Tragedy struck at 2:30pm on Wednesday when the girls ran into the tracks just as a locomotive engine was passing; the train caught one girl, dragging her another 15 meters - she died at the scene. The other child is in critical condition in an Olomouc hospital.
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11/01/2006
Czech men's tennis star Tomas Berdych has advanced to the Round of 16 of the Masters tournament in Paris. Berdych fought a tough match against Olivier Rochus of Belgium on Wednesday, finally victorious in three sets with a score of 6:7 (4:7), 6:4, 6:2. Tomas Berdych ended the match on a high, serving his twenty-first ace. Thus far, Berdych will donate 210 Euro of his winnings at the Masters to UNICEF, the charity of his choice. Tomas Berdych, the Paris Masters 2005 champion, is now scheduled to play American Robby Ginepri for a spot in the quarterfinals.
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10/31/2006
Party leaders have resumed talks on forming a new government, ahead of a scheduled meeting with President Vaclav Klaus on Friday. The Civic Democratic Party, which won the recent Senate and local elections, is likely to receive a formal mandate from president Klaus in the next few days and its leader Mirek Topolanek has taken the initiative in the negotiations. In a meeting with his main rival Social Democrat Jiri Paroubek, Mr. Topolanek firmly ruled out a grand coalition and is now seeking to secure support for a caretaker government which would lead the country to early elections in 2007. Talks with the Green Party and the Christian Democrats have established growing support for a "rainbow" cabinet.
A growing number of parties have expressed readiness to amend the Constitution in such a way as to facilitate early elections. The proposed bill stipulates that Parliament could be dissolved with the consent of a three-fifths majority in the lower house. The Civic Democrats, Christian Democrats, the Greens and the Communists have all expressed willingness to support it.
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10/31/2006
President Klaus issued a statement on Tuesday saying he would meet with the leaders of all five parliamentary parties on Friday to ascertain how matters stood. The president said he was pleased that political leaders had launched a new round of intensive negotiations at the start of this week and said that he intended to do some negotiating of his own. He has invited the head of the Civic Democrats Mirek Topolanek and the Christian Democrats Jan Kasal to talks at Prague Castle on Wednesday. The president stressed the need for a government which would have no trouble winning the confidence of the lower house.
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10/31/2006
Social Democrat leader Jiri Paroubek has come under growing criticism for his party's defeat in the Senate and local elections. Although Mr. Paroubek has been doing his best to present the outcome of the elections as a "moderate success" his critics and even some close associates are arguing the need to acknowledge defeat and accept the need for early elections. Party deputy chairman Zdenek Skromach pointed out that the last time the Social Democrats had won an election was in 2002. He said it was clear that the party needed to outline a new strategy and find new faces. Although nobody has openly challenged Mr. Paroubek's position as leader, regional party heads have criticized his style.
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10/31/2006
Interior Minister Ivan Langer is to be questioned by police investigators in connection with the leak of a classified police report. The report in question was produced by senior police officer Jan Kubice and pointed to alleged ties between the criminal underworld and the civil service. The report was submitted to parliament and was leaked to the press on the eve of the June general elections. The police inspection team working on the case suspect Mr. Langer, then a deputy, of having handed the report to the press or having intentionally left it open on his desk so that journalists could read it and take photographs.
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10/31/2006
Former Czech president Vaclav Havel, ex-prime minister Kjell Magne Bondevik of Norway and Nobel peace prize laureate Elie Wiesel on Monday urged the United Nations to take North Korea to task over its lamentable human rights record. In a joint article for the New York Times the three leading human rights activists said an independent report they commissioned into North Korea's treatment of its population yielded "deeply disturbing" evidence, for instance that the government had allowed a million - and possibly many more - of its people to die during a famine in the 1990s, when the government diverted resources from food purchases to its military and nuclear programs.
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10/30/2006
The Civic Democrats have started a new round of discussions regarding the formation of a government. The Civic Democrats, who won the largest number of seats in the lower house in the June elections but do not have a majority, expect to be given a second chance to try and form a government. A first attempt by the Civic Democrats failed in early October, with the loss of a vote of confidence in the lower house. President Vaclav Klaus is now expected to give the Civic Democrats another opportunity to find a solution to the current government stalemate - this on the basis of the Civic Democrats' strong showing in the recent Senate elections.
The Civic Democrats are planning to hold discussions with all the parties in the lower house. On Monday morning, Civic Democratic chairman and acting Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek began talks with the Green Party, centering on ways to dissolve the lower house and call early elections. Mr. Topolanek has said that his aim is to bring the country to early elections. The Social Democratic Party chairman Jiri Paroubek remains opposed to the idea of early elections in the Czech Republic.
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10/30/2006
The chairman of the Social Democratic Party, Jiri Paroubek, made a brief public appearance Monday afternoon, following a meeting with Civic Democratic Party leader, Mirek Topolanek. Mr. Paroubek told the press that a grand coalition between his Social Democrats and the right-of-center Civic Democrats is no longer a realistic way out of the political stalemate. Until now, Mr. Paroubek has suggested a grand coalition between the country's two largest political parties as a viable alternative to early elections. The Civic Democrats have dismissed this option consistently since the June elections ended in a deadlock.
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