The motion of no confidence requires at least 101 votes in the 200-seat Chamber of Deputies to succeed, but the CSSD and the other opposition party Communists (KSCM) only have 97 deputies together. The opposition's two previous Czech opposition CSSD expects no-confidence in three weeks ...
Communists, Social Democrats at odds over Czech presidential election ... attempts to topple the government that also comprises the junior Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL) and Greens failed. The two former CSSD deputies, Milos Melcak and Michal Pohanka, have already said they will not support the motion of no confidence. Paroubek said the vote could be influenced by today's debate on the property settlement between the state and churches in the Chamber of Deputies. Under the bill the state should pay 270 billion crowns to the churches over the next 60 years. "I am slightly optimistic that the outcome may be good.
Naturally, this is not certain, so wait and see how the deputies will decide at the last moment," Paroubek said. The CSSD has released 12 reasons for which the current government should go. It claims that the government is based on corruption, and yet it is pushing through a number of fundamental changes, for instance, in health care, and the stationing of a U.S. radar base on Czech soil. The CSSD says the government communicates neither with the public nor with the opposition. The government is dangerous for the state and its citizens, Paroubek said. Topolanek said the Social Democrats' move was a ritual ahead of the Chamber of Deputies every four months. Paroubek today refused to say whether he had won over any coalition deputies or whether he had discussed the issue with them. "I'd like to keep silent on the issue," Paroubek said. The Social Democrats hope that they will win over some government deputies disgruntled at Topolanek's government, none of them has indicated anything of this, however. The Communists are to decide later today whether to back the Social Democrats' motion.
(Ceske Noviny)
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