06.09.2008 - Bursik re-elected Czech Greens' leader
Bursik received 227 out of the 349 distributed voting tickets, the election commission said.He was supported by roughly two-thirds of the delegates to the party congress.His rival Dana Kuchtova was preferred by 109 delegates.Dana Kuchtova then said she would run for the post of party deputy chairwoman and if she did not succeed, she would not seek any posts in the party leadership.After the results were announced, Bursik asked those who had not voted Czech PM wants Greens to remain part of govt coalition ...
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The delegates stormily applauded him.Bursik thanked his assistants who supported him and stressed that he would like to lead the party along with them."These should be the people demonstrably able of teamwork," Bursik said.He said he wanted to have only those able to address the broad public and those who had accepted his political concept in the narrow party leadership.Kuchtova will be opposed by Ondrej Liska in the contest for deputy chairman.
(Ceske Noviny)
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