"The chairman [Cunek] has chosen an old political principle as a tool: If you lack a vision, you must have an internal enemy.
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Czech KDU-CSL head Cunek apologises to priest Halik ... make him up," KDU-CSL Finance Minister Kalousek told reporters. Another of Cunek's critics, KDU-CSL senators' group head Adolf Jilek, opposed his opinion that the atmosphere inside the party is full of mistrust and disunity. Jilek said Cunek imagined unity as a situation where everybody is thinking and nodding in the same way. Both politicians reacted to Cunek's speech at the congress in which he blamed the party's ranks of disunity. Though Cunek did not name Kalousek, he criticised some of the party's steps under Kalousek's leadership. Kalousek is not in the KDU-CSL inner leadership any more, but he is still considered an informal leader of Cunek's opponents. The weekend's congress of the KDU-CSL will focus on the programme. At the begining, the delegates rejected the proposal that the congress elect a new party chairman. Cunek resigned from the government posts last November when the suspected bribery case was reopened. It was definitively halted two weeks later. In early April President Vaclav Klaus re-appointed him deputy prime minister and local development minister. Moreover, Cunek was suspected of abusing social and housing benefits in the 1990s and he was repeatedly criticised over his controversial statements on Romanies.
(Ceske Noviny)
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