Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:36:56 +0200Political pundit: Cleansing within Social Democratic Party was long overduehttps://english.radio.cz/political-pundit-cleansing-within-social-democratic-party-was-long-overdue-8552271© 2026 Radio Prague International The Party of Civic Rights established in 2010 around the former Social Democrat prime minister Miloš Zeman is slowly gaining strength. According to opinion surveys it would now cross the 5 percent barrier needed to win seats in Parliament and it is doing its best to win over as many rival politicians and as much voter support from the Social Democrats as it can ahead of the autumn regional and senate elections. How serious a threat is this for the main opposition party and are we seeing a change of landscape on the political left? Political analyst Jiří Pehe explains: encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/zeman_62.jpg?timestamp=1591194750 Political pundit: Cleansing within Social Democratic Party was long overdue https://english.radio.cz/political-pundit-cleansing-within-social-democratic-party-was-long-overdue-8552271 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9