Gross praat met communisten

[Bartiku]

Informateur Gross (opvolger van Spidla in CSSD) moet van de leiding van zijn partij met alle partijen praten over de nieuwe regering, dus ook met KSCM de communisten: http://zpravy.idnes.cz/domaci.asp?r=domaci&c=A040704_120753_domaci_maf&t=A040704_120753_domaci_maf&r2=domaci . Andere partijen hebben al aangegeven dat als CSSD uitgaat van gedoogsteun door KSCM, zij zelf niet aan die regering willen deelnemen. Maar zover is het nog lang niet, want Gross gaat evengoed ook praten met ODS.

Vraag: ik begrijp dat KSCM nog een echt communistische partij is. Maar betekent dat ze alles weer willen zoals vroeger, incl. afschaffen democratie, nationaliseren van alle bedrijven en noem maar op, of hebben ze dat toch afgezworen?

 

[cz-huron]

Als je da vraagt aan de oudere mensen, zul je een positief antwoord krijgen....
Ik denk dat bij de voorlaatste verkiezingen de communisten nog 18 % haalden..........

 

[Vašek]

Als je da vraagt aan de oudere mensen, zul je een positief antwoord krijgen....

Vraag het aan mij (en ik ben jong) en je krijgt ook een positief antwoord.

 

[Juutje]

Voor zover ik weet hebben de communistische partijen in die regio die praktijken afgezworen. Zij hebben volgens mij een ietwat andere definitie aan het woord communistisch gegeven in de zin dat het meer socialistisch is.
De bevolking zal inderdaad een positief antwoord geven, temeer omdat de angst voor die praktijken nog steeds bestaat.

 

[Erikita]

Helaas heb ik nog niets in het Nederlands kunnen vinden. Wel een artikel in het Engels.

Czech President Appoints New Cabinet

PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Czech President Vaclav Klaus appointed a new Cabinet on Wednesday, reshuffling the government a month after the former prime minister resigned over his party's crushing defeat in European parliamentary elections.

New Prime Minister Stanislav Gross, appointed as premier late last month, leads the new Cabinet. He succeeds Vladimir Spidla, who stepped down as prime minister and leader of his Social Democratic Party after its poor showing in June's European vote.

Gross had served as interior minister in Spidla's government and is currently the acting chairman of the center-left Social Democrats.

The Social Democrats, who won elections two years ago on a pro-EU ticket, won a mere 8.8 percent of the vote in June's balloting, earning them just two of the country's 24 seats at the EU's legislature. The opposition Civic Democratic Party won 30 percent, or nine seats.

Although Gross had promised his Cabinet would be significantly different from the previous one, the lineup announced Wednesday included only a few new faces.

"This Cabinet was born somewhat unexpectedly," Klaus said during a swearing-in ceremony at Prague Castle, acknowledging that the last government made it only midway through the usual four-year term.

"I see that there are not many new faces in this Cabinet, but I still believe that this team under the new prime minister ... will attempt something new," Klaus said.

The new Cabinet, which held its first session later Wednesday, said it would present its program to parliament and ask for a vote of confidence on Aug. 24. The Czech constitution requires any new government to face a confidence vote within 30 days of its appointment.

Spidla's administration, which held a tiny one-vote majority in the 200-seat lower chamber of the Czech parliament, had come under criticism from across the political spectrum for trying to pass austerity measures to reduce a burgeoning budget deficit.

The Communist Party criticized the proposed cuts as too harsh, and the right-wing opposition called for a more complex reform package, including lower taxes and less redistribution of state funds.

As a new member of the European Union, the Czech Republic is obliged to keep its budget deficit to within 3 percent of gross domestic product. The deficit is projected to hit 5.9 percent for the year.

The ex-communist country, which joined the EU in May, also needs to overhaul its pension and health care systems. Both are nearly bankrupt as the population of 10 million grows older.

It was unclear whether the new Cabinet would be able to push through the reforms.

In the new government, Cyril Svoboda of the center-right Christian Democrats will stay on as foreign minister, and Karel Khuenl of the Freedom Union takes over as defense minister. Karel Bublan, until now the head of the country's intelligence service, was appointed interior minister.

Bron: Kentucky.com