"I have spoken with Snitily.
He has admitted he is aware of the fact that he has breached the resolution of the party bodies. He should explain why he did so on March 3," Tichy said. The CSSD Nachod branch has decided to hold an extraordinary meeting Czech Civic Democrats accept open presidential election ...
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Possible presidential candidate unknown to half of Czechs ... on March 3, with the vote on Snitily's expulsion from the party being on its agenda. A majority of CSSD members in Nachod have negative attitude towards Snitily's step, Tichy said. The CSSD expelled Snitily from the CSSD deputies' group on Friday when he disclosed Klaus, the incumbent president and candidate of the arch-rival Civic Democrats (ODS), as the favourite he would vote for. The CSSD, along with the junior ruling Greens and other individual MPs, promoted the rival candidate, liberal economist Jan Svejnar. Many say Klaus, who was elected by votes of a narrow majority of 141 of 279 lawmakers present, owes his success to Snitily's unexpected change of mind and to the absence of Greens deputy Olga Zubova on health grounds. CSSD chairman Jiri Paroubek has asked Snitily to give up his mandate of a deputy, which Snitily refused to do. By contributing to Klaus's victory in the presidential poll, Snitily joined Milos Melcak and Michal Pohanka, two deputies who were elected for the CSSD but enabled the establishment of the ODS-led government in early 2007, have kept if afloat, and who also voted for Klaus in the presidential poll.
(Ceske Noviny)
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