They also agreed they did not expect the KDU-CSL preferences, to rise after the weekend's congress.
The party support is now some 5-7 percent, that is only slightly above the 5-percent parliamentary threshold. "The congress has postponed the discrepancies. Only municipal or regional elections can shatter the party," analyst Zdenek Zboril told CTK. His colleague Tomas Lebeda said the congress could not solve the discrepancies at all since they have "much deeper causes." Lebeda said he thinks Czech press survey ...
Attorney halts case of Czech president's military office ex-chief ... the critics of KDU-CSL leader Jiri Cunek slightly rely on the KDU-CSL's debacle in the autumn elections. "Only then they will use the opportunity to some confrontation," Lebeda anticipated. Political analyst Bohumil Dolezal commented on the future development in the KDU-CSL. He said either supporters of the government coalition would persuade the others or Cunek would succeed in splitting the government. However, Dolezal pointed out that possible early elections would be every disadvantageous for the Christian Democrats. Dolezal, Zboril and Lebeda agreed that the KDU-CSL congress would not influence the party's preferences. Zboril said the Christian Democrats have only the votes of their traditional supporters left. Dolezal warned that the KDU-CSL preferences might drop under the parliamentary threshold. "And once they end up under the 5 percent limit, they will never rise above," he added.
(Ceske Noviny)
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