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Czech Court head sues subordinate over involvement in Cunek case ... court hearing that pressure had been exerted on her in connection with Cunek's alleged corruption case. Mitrofanov writes that "the end justified the means" principle has become widely applied in high Czech political and business circles. A number of the government's steps have violated the fair play rules, from relying on deputies-defectors from the opposition camp to Cunek's case, Mitrofanov says. Such an environment unfortunately predominates in Czech society where many people are trying to grab whatever they can and a success is measured by the bank account level.
An exceptionally honest man is being mocked by the majority convinced that no one can gain property by honest means, Mitrofanov adds. "Under these circumstances, the statement by a high judiciary representative, saying that justice must give in to political interests only confirms the situation from which no way out is known," Mitrofanov writes in conclusion. The fact that patients' regulatory fees have really helped decrease the wasting of medicines should not be dwarfed in the stormy debate on the fees' possible abolition, Martin Zverina writes in the daily Lidove noviny (LN) today. According to the State Institute for Drug Control (SUKL), the consumption of prescribed drugs has considerably dropped since the introduction of the fees in January. People simply pay for cheap medicines from their own pockets and so health insurers will have more resources for expensive methods, such as oncological treatment. Those who are pushing for the fees abolition should have these figures in mind, Zverina points out. Opponents of the health care fees now face a difficult task to prove that the system really harms someone's health. However, only provided that the debate about this issue is constructive, Zverina concludes in LN. The Czech Republic needs a reform of its election system, but politicians will most probably not agree on any more significant changes to the constitution, Petr Kambersky writes in Hospodarske noviny (HN) today. He recalls that the current centre-right coalition government wants to push through a modern election system that would secure a clear majority to the election winner and thereby also more stable governments. Nevertheless, Kambersky adds, in spite of the proportional election system, which led to the right-left draw after the previous general election held in June 2006, the "weak" government of Mirek Topolanek with only 100 deputies in the 200-seat lower house has pushed through a number of significant bills in the Chamber of Deputies. Moreover, the country needs other things, but an election system reform more urgently, such as reforms of the pension system and labour market, Kambersky says. "So let us cope with the fact that politicians will not agree on any big constitutional changes," Kambersky writes in HN.
(Ceske Noviny)
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