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“From lengthy political crisis straight into the thick of a political campaign“, writes the Prague daily on August 9 following the failure of Jiří Rusnok’s government to win a parliamentary confidence vote earlier in the week.
After President Miloš Zeman said he would let Rusnok’s administration continue to govern without a majority, parliament announced it would hold an extraordinary session on August 16 to dissolve itself before early elections in October.
Meanwhile, all the country’s political factions remain divided with the right-wing Civic Democratic Party (ODS) recording plunging popularity and the Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) expected to be the big winners and scoop more than 30 per cent of votes. New elections could also mean a return to parliament for the Christian Democrats (KDU-ČSL).
