Hasek told journalists that the group's leadership initiated the secret vote in which 59 of 62 MPs supported it. "I consider it an extremely strong confirmation of the leadership's mandate," he said. After Wolf left the deputies' group this weekend, some said the group's leaders should bear responsibility for it.
Wolf has already been the fourth MP who left the CSSD deputies' group since the 2006 election. Milos Melcak and Michal Pohanka left the CSSD because they enabled the formation of the coalition government of Mirek Topolanek (Civic Democrats, ODS) in January 2007. MP Evzen Snitily was expelled from Deputy Wolf leaves Czech opposition Social Democratic Party ...
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(Ceske Noviny)
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