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at his party’s congress in April. This would be the first time since 1990 that a Czech president had attended the Communists’ annual gathering.
Zeman is also on friendly terms with the neo-fas- cist Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) party of Tomio Okamura, which has 22 seats in parlia- ment. Earlier this year, he spoke at the SPD’s congress. Czech daily Pravo reported on February 22 that Okamura had said on the day of the Ano- CSSD talks that the SPD is prepared to support
a Babis government and that it is up to Babis to decide whether to meet SPD’s political agenda in exchange. CSSD is not able to guarantee all its
15 votes in the chamber, he said, in reference to CSSD MPs, such as former prime minister Bo- huslav Sobotka, who are known as among the Ano
leader’s political enemies.
Meanwhile, the daily also reported Christian Democrat (KDU-CSL) vice chair Jan Bartosek
as saying he is marginally optimistic that he will obtain the 80 signatures needed from MPs to take a vote on removing Okamura as deputy speaker
of parliament’s lower chamber. The result of that vote would depend on Ano’s MPs who were divided on the issue, he added.
The centrist STAN movement, with six MPs, is another party that has warned of the dangers the extremists pose should they become influential in a Babis administration. It has said it is prepared for negotiations with Babis to keep far-left and far-right parties out of the picture.
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