KDU-CSL first deputy chairman Roman Linek, however, said the party leadership will not discuss Jezek's dismissal any more.Jehlicka sacked Jezek on Tuesday over the controversial international architectonic competition for a new NK building, whose regularity was challenged by the EC recently.Jezek runs for the KDU-CSL in the October elections to the Senate.
Observers have experessed surprise at what they called the harming by Jehlicka of his own party's election candidate."No one at the KDU-CSL national meeting [on Tuesday] proposed that Jezek's candidacy to the Senate be withdrawn. It is not up to Czech press survey ...
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Czech National Film Archive to have new building ... the party body to decide on who will head a state-subsidised institution," Linek told CTK.Sojdrova distanced herself from Jezek's dismissal as NK director immediately on Tuesday evening.KDU-CSL deputy chairman David Macek today admitted that the decision to sack Jezek was within the minister's powers and Jehlicka would be accountable if it turned out to be wrong.According to the ministry, Jezek has failed as a manager preparing the new NK building project. Doubts have allegedly arisen about the validity of the architectonic competition, which poses serious financial risks for the state, the ministry said.Jehlicka discussed Jezek, the NK project and Jezek's election candidacy with the KDU-CSL national committee members on Tuesday. The debate was expected to continue after a fortnight, but a few hours later Jehlicka surprisingly made the decision on his own.Sojdrova said it would be unfortunate to ask Jehlicka to step down, given the numerous positive steps he had taken in the areas of churches and cultural heritage.If the KDU-CSL drew consequences from Jehlicka's partial mistake, this would be the same mistake that the one Jehlicka has made, Sojdrova said.According to an assessment Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek (KDU-CSL) has had worked out, the state lost 24 million crowns as a result of wrong steps in connection with the NK project.The Finance Ministry might claim the sum from the Culture Ministry, which runs the NK, the server Tyden.cz has written.The question is whether the latter ministry will have to lodge a criminal complaint against the persons who signed the launch fop the competition, Tyden.cz writes, citing a letter Kalousek has addressed to Jehlicka.Some newspaper commentators speculated that Jezek's dismissal now, more than a year after first troubles with the NK project emerged, might have been prompted by the senior ruling Civic Democrats (ODS) with the aim to harm him in the elections."I think the step can paradoxially be a good starting point in the elections, which, however, does not show the KDU-CSL as a reasonable party," Macek told CTK today.(USD1=17.630 crowns)
(Ceske Noviny)
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