Tlusty said on Sunday that Topolanek was to blame for the party's falling voter support because he diverted from the ODS election manifesto.
He also criticised Topolanek for the way he had informed the public about his holiday in Italy and his managing the government. Topolanek today repeatedly said he considered his holiday his private affair. He said the only event journalists could be interested was his meeting with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. He said the flight costs were covered by Transport Minister Ales Rebicek (ODS) who was among the group travelling to Italy. He said he would pay his part of the costs to Rebicek, possibly some 60,000 crowns. Apart from Topolanek and Rebicek, the group of some Czech ODS deputy again rejects government's church bill ...
Chamber postpones discussion on settlement with Czech churches ...
Czech govt ODS MP not to support bill on settlement with church ... ten people going on holiday together included Topolanek's partner Lucie Talmanova (ODS) and their baby boy Nicolas and Topolanek's aide Marek Dalik. Tlusty also said he would not support ODS bills on police and secret services. Tlusty and two other ODS MPs recently blocked the government's bill on property settlement with Czech churches in parliament. Last year, he also forced the government coalition to make changes in the tax bills that were part of the public finance reform, the most important package the coalition has pushed through parliament. ODS deputies' group head Petr Tluchor told CTK on Sunday that "Tlusty has virtually relinquished the ODS." Tlusty was finance minister in Topolanek's ODS minority cabinet that failed to win the parliament's support in late 2006. In January 2007, a centre-right coalition government, including also the Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL) and the Greens (SZ), was formed. Tlusty has been extremely critical to the plans of Miroslav Kalousek (KDU-CSL) who replaced him as finance minister.
(Ceske Noviny)
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