The ODS executive council today called on its regional organisations from which the deputies were elected to the lower house to pay serious attention to the situation. The disunity among deputies of the ODS and other government coalition parties were reflected at the Chamber of Deputies extraordinary session last week. When a vote on an amendment on welfare benefits was taken several deputies who are members of the ODS's internal party platform around MP Vlastimil Tlusty voted against the bill drafted by Labour and Social Affairs Minister Petr Necas (ODS). Along with the opposition, they have pushed through an increase in benefits for the parents of seriously ill children. Under the passed Czech PM's party may trade Lisbon treaty for U.S.
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Czech Greens not to seek post in Chamber of Deputies leadership ... amendment to the law on state social support Czech parents of seriously ill children are to receive parental benefits up to the age of 15 of their children as from January, while now it is up to seven. "They voted differently, without any warning or justification," Necas said. Five ODS deputies - Juraj Raninec, Tlusty, Alena Paralova, Jan Schwippel and Jan Klas - voted against the government-sponsored bill. "The ODS executive council disagrees on principle with the repeated voting by several deputies elected for the ODS against their own group and against the ODS's fundamental programme priorities along with the Communists (KSCM) and the Social Democrats (CSSD)," the ODS leadership said in a statement today. The open opposition of some coalition deputies against their parties' leaderships visibly weakened the coalition at the Chamber of Deputies June session already. There are rebellious deputies not only among the ODS, but also among the junior government Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL) and the Greens (SZ). As a result, the government coalition experiences difficulties in pushing through its bills and it lost its fight with the opposition over certain very important laws. ODS chairman and Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek admitted in June that the government's position in the Chamber of Deputies was problematic.
(Ceske Noviny)
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