Civic Democrats and Greens still arguing about course of elections

Recriminations have continued between governing coalition parties the Civic Democrats, who backed Mr Klaus, and the Greens, who supported Mr Švejnar. Speaking on a live TV programme on Sunday, the Civic Democrats’ Pavel Bém reiterated criticism of the Greens’ late decision to support a public vote and their verbal attacks on the incumbent. The Green’s Kateřina Jacques countered that her party had changed its policy because of a meeting between the head of Mr Klaus’s office and a shady political fixer; she added that polls suggested most Czechs preferred a public vote.