"If normal judges were trying cases in this country, their [CSSD's] statements would be subject to a lawsuit," Topolanek, chairman of the Civic Democrats (ODS), said after a meeting of the ODS executive council today. He reacted to the Social Democrats' words about the ODS exerting pressure on CSSD deputies, using corruption practices. The Civic Democrats categorically dismiss the accusations. Wolf explained his departure from the deputy group by problems and discords within the CSSD Moravian-Silesian branch of which Plans for a national security body for Germany ...
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Czech CSSD committee nods to new vote of no confidence in govt ... he is a member. Lubomir Zaoralek, head of the branch and CSSD shadow foreign minister, said the situation in the regional branch could not have influenced Wolf's decision. Wolf's step might be also influenced by anonymous SMS threats he had received probably due to his positive stand on the planned U.S.
radar base on Czech soil. The CSSD senior officials said Wolf's departure was caused by pressure and corruption on the part of the ODS. They say the ODS would like to twist the division of forces and weaken the CSSD ahead of the autumn regional and Senate elections Topolanek today said the CSSD deputies were not defecting elsewhere, but they were simply departing since they were dissatisfied with the situation in the CSSD. They would probably like to vote according to their conscience, and they mind the authoritarian rule of CSSD chairman Jiri Paroubek, Topolanek said after a meeting of the ODS executive council. The ODS council today also agreed that a possible ratification of the Lisbon treaty by other countries would be only the formal fulfilment of an international commitment after the Irish "No." The treaty cannot take effect until all 27 member states approve it, ODS MEP Jan Zahradil told reporters. Wolf is the fourth deputy to leave the CSSD deputies' group since the mid-2006 elections. Michal Pohanka and Milos Melcak left the group and the party after supporting the establishment of the ODS-led government in early 2007. The group was also left by Evzen Snitily who supported the re-election of Vaclav Klaus, the ODS' candidate, as Czech president this February. The desertions have reinforced the coalition government of the ODS, the Christian Democrats and the Greens that has only a precarious majority in the 200-member Chamber of Deputies as it only received 100 mandates in the elections.
(Ceske Noviny)
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