However, the government has raised certain reservations about the bill, he said. The bill sets the conditions under which a person will be able to gain the certificate of an anti-communist fighter and active participants in the "third resistance" will be able to acquire war veteran status. The bill does not provide for any financial compensation. "We approved the bill but have raised many reservations," Topolanek said. The part of the bill concerning rehabilitation and its provision on the establishment of an administrative body that could re-consider decisions of the Institute for Totalitarian Regimes Study would have to be specified, Topolanek said. "We consider both parts disputable.
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Czech Factum Invenio not to release current preferences polls ... he said. Resistance fighter certificates could be won by people who fought against the communist regime with arms in their hands, were involved in sabotage, smuggled people across the border, were imprisoned for their views for at least three years during which their health was impaired and who organised petitions and demonstrations against the communist regime for at least one year. Such persons would be entitled to admission to war veteran homes or to subsidies to spa treatment. The bill that was submitted by the senators for the senior ruling Civic Democrats (ODS) and the junior government Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL) was not supported by Communist Party (KSCM) senators. The bill may face problems in the Chamber of Deputies where the left-wing parties have half of the seats. The bill will apply to the period between February 25, 1948 when the Communists seized power in the former Czechoslovakia and November 17, 1989 when the events that resulted in the fall of the communist regime started. It was drafted on the initiative of and in cooperation with the Political Prisoners' confederation.
(Ceske Noviny)
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