Deputies Juraj Raninec and Jan Schwippel told journalists they felt disappointed at Tluchor keeping his post and would decide within a fortnight whether to remain in the ODS group. The ODS group today also called on Morava and another deputy, Vlastimil Tlusty, to give up their mandates of deputy over the alleged planning of extortion of MPs.
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Czech coalition opens path to stronger position in committees ... same demand the party leadership addressed to Morava and Tlusty earlier, Tluchor told journalists. Interior Minister Ivan Langer, ODS deputy head, confirmed that Morava has given up his mandate. Tlusty, who was absent from the meeting today, refuses to do so. In its recent programme Nova TV said Morava had tried to gather sensitive information about politicians from the ODS and other parties in order to make them vulnerable to extortion. According to TV Nova, Morava tried to spread sensitive photographs featuring Tlusty, but it was Tlusty who had intentionally organised taking of the photographs along with journalists and played the role of a provocateur. Tlusty said he had prepared "the bait" in an effort to uncover dirty practices among deputies. Raninec said on Monday the report evidently showed that Tluchor had known about Morava's activities and therefore he and Schwippel would consider leaving the ODS group if Tluchor remained at its helm. Raninec, Schwippel and Tlusty are known as a trio of deputies often opposed to the ODS leadership. Besides Raninec and Schwippel, it was deputy Alena Paralova who proposed Tluchor's dismissal as ODS deputies' group head today. Jan Klas, another deputy who sides with Tlusty now and then, told CTK he condemns Tlusty's initiative which he considers "beyond the verge" of correct methods of political competition. "I'm not glad either to see so much dirt having surfaced this way, but I definitely do not believe that deputy Tlusty is the cause of Mr Morava's failure," said Raninec. The ODS-led government has 100 deputies in the 200-seat parliament. Since its establishment in early 2007 it has been kept afloat by two to four independent deputies who had been originally elected for the Social Democrats (CSSD), now an opposition party.
(Ceske Noviny)
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