Czech press survey - March 18

Czech politics is again at the bottom where it was pushed by the Wolf-Dalik case that dazzles with its stupidity, Steigerwald writes.

Marek Dalik, about whom Topolanek says is his friend, is working remarkably - for opposition leader Jiri Paroubek who wants to vote no confidence in Topolanek's government, Steigerwald writes.

Topolanek has made a mistake that may mean an end of the government. He has frozen the radar which someone else may be defrosting after some time. The someone else may be Paroubek, Steigerwald writes.

Jiri Hanak in Pravo also toys with the idea that Marek Dalik may have played a dirty trick on Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek in the case of former opposition Social Democrat deputy Petr Wolf when he told television reporter that Topolanek has asked him to arrange for the planned TV report on Wolf not to be broadcast.

Dalik must have known that this will be disclosed, Hanak writes.

But what if Dalik, the cleaner of political sewers, has been fed up with his post, Hanak writes.

"Has Topolanek's star been setting and has the lobbyist been already pursuing his own deals without respect for his chief?" Hanak writes.

In Hospodarske noviny Petr Kambersky writes that early elections are not the primary goal of the public dismissing of the government.

Kambersky writes that not even such an adroit person like opposition leader Jiri Paroubek would manage such a task in the current situation.

The Christian Democrats will hold an election congress in June, the Greens are on the brink of electability and the Civic Democrats are not yet sure who their election leader will be, Kambersky writes.

He says the primary goal of the government's public dismissing is to switch off the lights of EU presidency that lend Topolanek glamour.

From the point of view of news services, the Chamber of Deputies reminds of South Africa in the era of apartheid, Zbynek Petracek writes in Lidove noviny, and says the session room is "also for the Coloured," while the corridors are "for the the white only," meaning writing editors.

Petracek reacts to the decision by the Chamber of Deputies' management that locks cameramen out of Chamber of Deputies corridors because they allegedly take up too much room.

The real reason is different, however, Petracek writes.

The problem is not how much room cameras take, but what they record around the interviewed person. They can record deputies awkwardly avoiding giving answers to journalists' questions, or arrogantly driving them away, Petracek writes.

Autor: ČTK
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