Get a new plan, Stan
The first person George W. Bush singled out for praise after his
election victory was his chief strategist, Karl Rove. Rove is now
being widely feted as a genius. In the CR, Stanislav Gross bet the
house on advice from Andrej Surņak and lost everything. ČSSD
won just 14% of the vote in the regional elections, to 36% for
ODS, and did even worse in the Senate elections. Gross talks of a
positive trend after improving from 8% in the EU elections, but
this doesn't fool anyone. The election results show that Gross
took control of the party and country prematurely and let
himself be overly influenced by self-interested advisers handing
out bad advice. As painful as it will be for Gross to admit, he
needs the help of ex-Premier Milo Zeman, and it'll have to be
on Zeman's terms. Otherwise, Gross can count on being out of a
job after the general elections in 18 months.
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