The Communists are the party that recently said it still approved of the 1948 Communist coup, Hanak writes. In the last six months of his work as prime minister, Paroubek was tainted by the cooperation with the Communists much more than expected, he adds. Paroubek pushed through all possible legislation along with the Communists and now this may backfire on him. Due to this, Paroubek may have lost more voters among the centrist voters than he received among the leftist radicals, Hanak writes. As far as President Vaclav Klaus is concerned, he should send a personal greeting to the Communists' national congress as a sign of decency.
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Czech KDU-CSL head says dispute over U.S. report solved ... fact, they helped him to the first election by their own votes, and to his re-election by their absence in decisive moments. However, gratitude and decency are sorely lacked in Czech politics, Hanak writes. Any new report on the case of Czech deputy prime minister Jiri Cunek confirms that he should never have been in the government, Martin Weiss writes on Cunek's refusal to give witness's evidence in the case of businessman Roman Vaskuj and Petr Smirak, citing his senatorial mandate, in Lidove noviny. It is most likely that he only refused to give the testimony as he is afraid of unpleasant questions in court just as he is afraid of unpleasant questions from journalists, Weiss writes. The credibility of those who have accused Cunek of fraud has thus been strengthened, he adds. Now there is the question of whether Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg, who vowed to step down if Cunek does not clear up his finances, will fulfil his promise, Weiss writes. The lesson from Cunek's case for the public is apparent: some politicians in the highest corridors of power always get off scot-free, Martin Hekrdla writes in Pravo. It is common knowledge that the origin of millions of crowns in Cunek's household was not explained. He only could have saved perhaps one million crowns in 1982-1998, provided he had lived like quite a poor person. However, Cunek deposited 3.5 million in the banks. This was confirmed even by the latest court proceedings, Hekrdla stresses. It is absolutely useless if Karel Schwarzenberg tries to clear the mystery of Cunek's millions by an American auditing office as the public knows pretty well the background of the case, he adds. ($1 = 16.113 crowns)
(Ceske Noviny)
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