These days, the government has run into the deepest crisis since it came to power in 2006 as not one, but all three coalition parties are torn by internal strife, Kolar writes.As a result, it could have been most convenient for Paroubek to provoke a no confidence vote in the government as soon as possible.
It would be perhaps the best at the forthcoming Chamber of Deputies session on September 23, he adds.Paroubek ought to have made the most of the moment when the governing parties are in disarray and dealt them a coup Polish President to pay working visit to Prague next week ...
Czech police reform to include dismissals-minister ... de grace, Kolar writes.Paroubek has preferred to put off the affair for the time after the autumn regional and Senate elections.However, it may be the Civic Democratic Party (ODS), not the Social Democrats who will win them. Besides, the coalition will have enough time to recover.Perhaps Paroubek does not really want to topple the government, Kolar concludes. President Vaclav Klaus wanted to deflect the attention from the role of Vlastimil Tlusty in the latest blackmailing scandal in the Chamber of Deputies when he stressed that this was not a failure of any individuals, but of the system, Jiri Leschtina writes in Hospodarske noviny.However, the political system is mainly constituted by politicians.The system must have been in an awful state in the last presidential elections already when an opposition deputy collapsed after a conversation with Interior Minister Ivan Langer and when the same Langer made the threats that some will end up in the slammer, Leschtina writes.It is a pity that Klaus did not warn of a political system in a vacuum and its fateful consequences between the first and second rounds of the presidential elections, he adds. It is not difficult to guess whom Klaus had in mind when claiming that the blackmailing scandal was not a failure of an individual (the ODS deputy Jan Morava), but of the system, Pavel Verner writes in Pravo.As this happened in the ODS, Klaus's target is obvious.However, Prime Minister and ODS leader Mirek Topolanek is to blame for his predicament as he promised not to run again at the party congress if he does not manage to make order in the party in the meantime. With the statement, he has cornered himself, Verner writes.His rivals immediately sensed the opportunity. Along with Klaus, Prague Mayor Pavel Bem did so when replying to the question of whether he will run for the post of party leader that "everything can happen." He has a right to do this as the Morava case is a real blessing for him, Verner writes. Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek often makes promises he cannot make good, Petr Kambersky writes about Topolanek's having told hauliers that he will consider their objections to the planned ban on lorries riding on Friday afternoon in Hospodarske noviny.It should be borne in mind that Topolanek had promised to the ODS rebels that taxes would be further cut in 2009. Before the 2006 elections he promised that the ODS would not increase the cash payment in health care.However, Topolanek must turn down someone as he promised quiet on the motorways to the Greens.Given the choice between the end of the coalition and a blockade of the roads lasting a few days, one can easily imagine what solution will be eventually preferred by Topolanek, Kambersky writes.
(Ceske Noviny)
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