Wolf said Paroubek had told him that if he did not support Social Democrat candidate Jan Svejnar, he would disclose the information on some alleged irregularities in the firm in which he had worked. Svejnar was eventually defeated by President Vaclav Klaus, nominated by the Civic Democratic Party (ODS). "When Paroubek learnt that the firm ODS Bem to join Czech government - CSSD leader Paroubek ...
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Czech CSSD committee nods to new vote of no confidence in govt ... in which I worked allegedly breached the budget rules when drawing a subsidy, he tried to blackmail me in the presidential election," Wofl said. "He said if I do not support Svejnar, he will publish the case.
After I left the CSSD, it immediately appeared in the media," Wolf said in a press statement passed to CTK. He dismissed the allegation that he had been "bought" by the coalition government headed by the ODS. "I'd like to stress again that the sole reason for my departure from the deputies' group and the CSSD was the atmosphere of threats and pressure prevailing in the CSSD, both in the Moravian and Silesian region and on the national level," Wolf said. Wolf possibly will have to return the several-million-crown state subsidy his firm received in 2005, a "threat" some say might have been behind his departure from the CSSD, Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD) wrote last weekend. The Financial Office in Ostrava is now determining how much from the 4.6-million-crown subsidy Wolf should return. The office will have to respect the recommendation of the Environment Ministry which has given the information to the daily, MfD wrote. "I dismiss the notion that I have abused any state subsidies for any private purposes," Wolf said. Wolf has been the fourth CSSD deputy to have left the party since it had gone into the opposition after the 2006 elections. (USD1 = 15.241 crowns)
(Ceske Noviny)
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