Survey shows 70 percent believe coalition will not last until 2014

Seventy percent of Czechs believe that the current coalition government of Prime Minister Petr Nečas will not stay its course for a full four year term until 2014 according to a survey released by the Lidové noviny newspaper on Wednesday. Respondents were questioned between December 25 and 27, in the wake of the corruption scandal which forced the resignation of the environment minister and unsuccessful vote of no confidence tabled in the government. Around of third of those questioned said the current coalition would split and not survive 2011 in its current form.