On Saturday, Wolf announced he is leaving the CSSD group of deputies.
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Czech CSSD committee nods to new vote of no confidence in govt ... the CSSD has lost since the mid-2006 elections. On Saturday, Wolf said he was leaving the group due to problems and discords in his home CSSD branch in Ostrava, north Moravia. Addressed by CTK, north Moravian CSSD officials dismissed this. Wolf, on his part, dismissed speculations that he had coordinated his departure with the senior governing Civic Democrats (ODS). "These are mean accusations that I've ignored for now. Nevertheless, if this exceeded a certain extent my lawyers would start dealing with it," Wolf to Novinky.cz. He said he is leaving for a week-long business trip and will return only next Saturday. Wolf's departure from the CSSD might have been motivated by the anonymous SMS threats he has been reportedly receiving for a few weeks. They are probably linked to Wolf's accommodating stand to the U.S. plan to install its missile defence radar on Czech soil, a project the Czech ODS-led government promotes while the CSSD is opposed to it. Today, Wolf accused CSSD chairman Jiri Paroubek of directing CSSD deputies in a way making them abandon the party. The CSSD, which emerged with 74 deputies from the mid-2006 elections, has thus lost the fourth deputy. The previous three only withdrew from the CSSD deputies' group and were subsequently expelled from the party. They are Milos Melcak and Michal Pohanka, who were expelled from the CSSD for having enabled the establishment of the centre-right government in January 2007, and Evzen Snitily, who supported the re-election of Vaclav Klaus, the ODS' candidate, as Czech president this February. While Melcak and Pohanka have often voted along with the government since, Snitily has mostly sided with the CSSD. Even along with independents Melcak and Pohanka, the government coalition can count on only 102 votes in the 200-seat Chamber of Deputies. In addition, its majority is rather uncertain as individual rebels, opposed to various government projects, including the U.S. radar, have emerged in each of the three ruling parties.
(Ceske Noviny)
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