Social Democrats to take tougher stance in talks with emerging coalition

The outgoing Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek has said his Social Democrats will take a tougher stance in the negotiations with the emerging centre-right coalition of the Civic Democrats, the Christian Democrats and the Greens. He labelled the three-party coalition as an unviable project and again called for the establishment of a caretaker government as a way out of the post-election deadlock.

On Friday, the leader of the Civic Democrats Mirek Topolanek rejected Mr Paroubek's proposal to meet along with President Vaclav Klaus in order to try and find a solution to the stalemate.