Where's the right?
MP Hana Marvanová of US-DEU might end up leaving
the chamber today to allow the coalition government's
tax changes to pass by a single vote. If she stays seated
and votes against the move, she could bring on the fall
of the government coalition. Some people say it's
already hanging by a thread anyway. US is being kept
together artificially, a reader said, and the sooner it
disappears the better. A credible right-wing party needs
to rise from the ashes, the reader argued, and the main
question is whether it can be a reincarnated and
expanded ODS - minus Václav Klaus, Ivan Langer,
Vlastimil Tlustý, Jan Zahradil, etc. - or whether a new
party will have to be created. Some people are putting
their hopes on Jan Kasl and his European Democrats. If
Kasl wins the Prague elections, ODS will come under
more pressure to reform. If Pavel Bém leads ODS to
victory, the future of the right might fall into his hands.
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