Peake quits Public Affairs, will start new ‘political platform’…

Leading Public Affairs figure Karolína Peake has left the party. The deputy chairwoman of the junior coalition party made the announcement at a special press conference on Tuesday, saying that she disliked the style with which Public Affairs presents itself and intends to start a new political platform. Peake is the latest of several leading figures to leave the party in the wake of numerous scandals that have kept it in the front of public attention for the last several weeks. She notably broke with party chairman Radek John over the party’s recent instigation of a government crisis, leading many to expect that Public Affairs would soon split along factions centred around Peake and Vít Bárta, who was convicted of bribery last week.