"When it was found out that he organises such actions, his membership was cancelled," Petr Strunc, ODS executive council member, is quoted as saying by the server. The server writes that Bures was an ODS member at the time when he was convoking Tens of neo-Nazis gathering in Prague ...
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Czech authorities ban right extremists' planned demonstration ... the action participants and when he was recommending them to get armed. The neo-Nazis wanted to walk through Plzen centre, but Mayor of Plzen Pavel Roedl banned the action that drew a wave of resistance on Thursday last week. That is why the rightist extremists changed their plans and met in Prague.
The demonstration of some 200 people lasted about one hour and was calm. Strunc said the ODS did not know what Bures is doing. Bures, however, called a similar action last April already. Some 50 extremists then protested in Plzen on his initiative against the imprisonment of Vlastimil Pechance that they said was unjust. Pechanec was sentenced to 17 years in prison for the racially-motivated murder of Romany Ota Absolon. iDnes quotes Strunc as saying that the Plzen ODS checked to be sure that its members are not extremists, but found none. According to the server, Bures said he joined the ODS last spring because he found the party pleasant. He also claims that he himself proposed to the party to abolish his membership. Information about contacts of certain ODS representatives with extremists appeared in the past already. A fortnight ago it surfaced that several ODS politicians signed an appeal whose signatories included representatives of the extreme right. The deputies who identified with the call for the protection of values such as the nation, the traditional family and the division of the roles of man and woman, however, dismissed any links with the right. They said they signed the petition because they liked its content, and that they did not know who wrote the appeal and who also signed it. The petition that was posted on the web site of the National press agency www.natia.cz was also signed by representatives of the Law and Justice and the Patriotic Front association that the BIS counter-intelligence ranked among the extreme nationalist and even xenophobic organisations in its 2006 annual report. Three years ago, ODS chairman Mirek Topolanek, who is now prime minister, attracted media attention when he met representatives of the National Party that has drawn attention among others by controversial statements about Romanies. Topolanek did not attach any importance to the meeting at which possible post-election cooperation was discussed according to a National Party statement. "Cooperation is entirely impossible due to different programmes, the meeting was formal and the last one," he told CTK then. The National Front formed a grouping together with other small nationalist parties. The grouping hen supported President Vaclav Klaus and ODS honorary chairman's opinion of the European Union. Klaus's secretary Ladislav Jakl thanked the grouping on behalf of Klaus for the letter of support.
(Ceske Noviny)
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