The Czech general elections

• The Czech Green Party - 02-06-2006 08:52:21 - Only logged activists can post a comment, please sign in or register here

  On the Czech political scene there has appeared a party: the Green Party. It did not appeared suddenly "from day to day". It existed already quite a long time but thanks to some frustration of the voters it has obtained more and more support.
  
  Now, even Václav Havel, the former president of the Czech Republic, has expressed his recognition of this party: In his opinion it could play the role of an alternative choice.
  
  But the Green Party in Czech Republic is not a choice as good as it might seem. First of all, the leader of the party, Martin Bursík, is not able (or doesn't want) to say with whom he would go to the coalition. That ´s why some people say: If you vote for the Greens, you will vote for ODS, the opposite right-wing party. Others say: If you vote for the Greens, you will vote for ČSSD. Well, that’s quite a confusion.
  
  Moreover the Green Party has just created a left platform. But when its leader met prime minister Jiří Paroubek 2 days ago, Martin Bursík was so angry that he even decided to withdraw the platform's leader from the voting list.
  
  The message for the voter should therefore be clear. The Green Party calculates. Generally one or two weeks before the elections a political party should poses a clear programme and present its attitudes. Only then we could really talk about a real alternative…

   

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  • Aleksander GLOGOWSKI - 05-06-2006 13:02:02

    It is very hard to understand, seen from France, what is going on in SZ, as most french Greens considers themselves as the "true" Left. Is there any possibility to have a "Gauche plurielle" coalition (CSSD-KSCM-SZ) in CR ?

   

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