Public protest against PM

Some 2,000 people gathered on Prague's Wenceslas Square on Tuesday afternoon to protest against the continued presence of Jiri Paroubek - outgoing prime minister and head of the defeated Social Democrats - in Czech politics. The crowd was angered by the Prime Minister's bitter post-election speech in which he failed to accept his party's defeat, questioned the validity of the elections and called the elections "a defeat of democracy comparable to that in 1948 when the communists took over power in Czechoslovakia." The crowd chanted "enough of Paroubek", demanding his resignation from all political posts.