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11/05/2007
The Zlin branch of the Christian Democrats has expressed support for the party's embattled leader Jiri Cunek, who last week announced his resignation from all government posts. Mr. Cunek is once again being investigated for fraud after the state attorney re-opened a case previously closed for lack of evidence and it has also emerged that in the 1990s he had abused the welfare system by taking social and housing allowances from the state at a time when he had millions of crowns in the bank. Many Christian Democrats have called on him to step down as party leader as well, but Mr. Cunek claims he is innocent and wants to defend his position as party head. He is expected to be quizzed about his finances at a party conference on Tuesday.
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11/05/2007
Roman Linek, deputy chairman of the Christian Democratic Party, seems the most likely candidate to succeed Jiri Cunek as deputy prime minister and minister for local development. Mr. Linek told the daily Pravo on Monday that he was prepared to accept the posts if he received majority support from his party.
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11/05/2007
Miroslav Slouf, who served as advisor to the former prime minister Milos Zeman, has been asked to leave the Social Democratic Party because of his contacts with people from the underworld. In an interview for the Mlada Fronta Dnes daily, Slouf admitted to having had frequent contacts with the murdered mafia boss Frantisek Mrazek who was suspected of extensive fraud and conspiracy to murder. Shortly after the interview was published Social Democrat leader Jiri Paroubek said Slouf should leave the party without delay and he advised the ruling Civic Democrats to cut all contacts with him immediately. During Milos Zeman's administration in the years between 1998 and 2002 Miroslav Slouf was one of the most influential figures behind the scenes. It is feared that the man who advised the then-prime minister was himself advised by a mafia boss.
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11/05/2007
Interior Minister Ivan Langer said on Monday he considers the paramilitary unit recently established by the far-right National Party "personally unacceptable" and said the police would keep a sharp eye on its activities. The establishment of this right-wing paramilitary unit has also sparked criticism from the country's next-door neighbour Slovakia. Slovak President Ivan Gasparovic said in an interview for Slovak Radio over the weekend that he was greatly concerned by this development and what he called "Prague's lack of response to it". He said such a unit could fuel extremism in Slovakia.
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11/05/2007
The Supreme Administrative Court on Monday rejected Prague City Hall's complaint against the verdict of the Prague City Court which abrogated the City Hall's ban on a march by right-wing extremists through the Jewish quarter on November 10th. The Supreme Administrative Court agreed with the Prague City Court in that the City Hall had made procedural mistakes in justifying the ban. However it appears that the march will not take place anyway since the City Hall invalidated the request on other grounds. The planned march scheduled for the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the 1938 pogrom on Jews, sparked a wave of protests both in the Czech Republic and abroad. The City Hall has said it is determined to prevent it taking place.
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11/05/2007
The number of Czechs who consider themselves proponents of the left has risen slightly since 2004, according to the outcome of a poll conducted by the CVVM agency. Their number has increased from 32 to 36 percent bringing into balance the number of left and right wing supporters.
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11/05/2007
The heavy vehicle toll collected on Czech motorways will be a billion crowns higher than expected in the first year of the system's operation, experts in the field told the CTK news agency. They said the overall amount of money collected would be higher due to a significant growth in the volume of road transport thanks to the country's fast growing economy. The full year revenue is expected to reach 5.8 billion crowns. The system's operator Kapsch should receive 2 billion crowns for its services. Following some teething problems at the start of the year the system has run smoothly.
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11/04/2007
Jan Svejnar has said he will decide by the end of next week whether to stand for president of the Czech Republic. Mr Svejnar, a respected US-based economist, told Czech Television he would come to a decision after holding talks with representatives of the parties in Parliament. The Social Democrats, the Greens and most European Democrat senators have already said they would back him in a contest with the incumbent Vaclav Klaus in early February. Mr Svejnar, who emigrated from communist Czechoslovakia in 1970, said he would have no objections to the support of the present-day Communist Party; their backing could be crucial if he is to succeed Mr Klaus.
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11/04/2007
Meanwhile, the minister of labour, Petr Necas, a Civic Democrat party colleague of President Klaus's, said if Jan Svejnar does stand it will be a copy-book example of conflict of interest. Since 2003 Mr Svejnar has been chairman of the supervisory board of CSOB bank, which is involved in a CZK 30-billion arbitration case with the Czech state. Speaking on a TV debate show, Mr Necas said he was very much shocked that anybody could consider Mr Svejnar as a serious candidate for president, adding that the economist should have quit his CSOB post some time ago if he planned to run for the post of head of state.
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11/04/2007
Police broke up a rock concert attended by around 120 skinheads in a hotel in Nove Hamry, west Bohemia on Saturday night. Over 100 officers intervened when one of the participating bands performed a song with anti-Semitic lyrics; it was a cover version of a song written by a now-banned Slovak far-right group. Two policemen were injured in clashes with the skinheads and six arrests were made.
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