Former and Current Premiers Clash

22. 3. 2010

Ex prime minister Mirek Topolánek has offended the caretaker government's premier Jan Fischer. During an interview for gay magazine LUI, the leader of the center right Civic Democrats (ODS) thought he was not being recorded when he made jokes over Christianity, about the Czech Minister of Transports Gustav Slamečka, alluding to his supposed homosexuality, and over premier Fischer's Jewish roots.

To make things worse, the ex prime minister got help in writing his public letter of appology from Martin Schmarcz, who works for the current government, rasing issues of conflict of interest.

Nevertheless, premier Fischer did not accept the appology and announced he will keep his communication with the ODS leader to a minimum and would limit it to government-related issues.

The Minister of Transports, whose name has been in the center of controversial remarks by a union leader that he would be part of a clique of homosexuals in control of the country's public transportation, declared he knows Topolánek is neither homophobe nor anti-Semite and accepts the explanation that they were only jokes taken out of context.

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