Mr. Clean and his dream team
2010-07-01
What does it take to become a minister in the anti-corruption,
reform cabinet of Petr Nečas? It doesn't hurt to be a political
dinosaur, a qualification that half of the candidates meet. To
become finance minister, you must be a product of the Five
Families, electrostate and military-industrial complex, all at
once. To become environment minister (Pavel Drobil), you need
be a chainsaw eager to guard the virgin forest. Proponents of
expensive, ineffectual military equipment (Saša Radar O'Vondra)
are a must at the defense ministry. Four of the ministers (Martin
Kocourek, Ivan Fuksa, Jaromír Drábek and Vondra) can boast of
their ties to ČEZ. Protectors of judicial and scholastic mafias get
to run the justice department. Frustrated doctors/dentists get
first dibs on the healing of culture, education and healthcare.
The interior and transport ministries must be manned by
outsourcing specialists. No Czech cabinet is complete without an
ex-Commie. And of course Mr. Clean is there to ride roughshod
and to prove the skeptics wrong.
[Czech Republic Alexandr J&T KKCG Penta PPF RPG Lesy ČR Jiří
Pospíšil Radek John Miroslav Kalousek Karel Schwarzenberg Vít
Bárta Josef Dobeš Jiří Besser]
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