Nejdl, the ODS Rakovnik district branch chairman, said Tlusty will be invited to explain the scandal involving ODS deputy Jan Morava who showed interest buying photos discrediting Tlusty, which, however, Tlusty himself had made allegedly with the aim to show dirty practices in parliament.Tlusty said he will attend the Rakovnik branch meeting, "naturally and with pleasure." "Facts speak in favour of me.
I can't understand those who judge me irrespective of the facts," Tlusty told CTK.Nejdl denied the media information that he has already called on Tlusty to leave the ODS."I've only said that ODS senators ask deputy Tlusty to resign ...
Czech ODS distances itself from blackmailing scandal ...
Czech PM wants deputy Tlusty to leave lower house ... it would benefit the ODS if he did so," he said.Prime Minister and ODS chairman Mirek Topolanek, the ODS executive council and regional branches demand that Tlusty give up his mandate of a lower house deputy, as Morava did earlier this week.Many ODS leaders, including Pavel Bem, the party's first deputy chairman and mayor of Prague, said they cannot imagine Tlusty remaining in the ODS.Tlusty, former finance minister for the ODS who last year fell out with Topolanek and became a rebel among the government deputies, seems not to intend to resign or leave the ODS."I have no reason to depart from anywhere," he said.ODS spokesman Milan Bouska said that a member can be expelled from the ODS only by his/her local home branch, which is the Rakovnik branch in Tlusty's case.Meetings will be held next week by the ODS district council and by the ODS branch in the town of Rakovnik, whose interim head is Central Bohemian deputy governor Vilem Zak.
(Ceske Noviny)
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