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My Premature Views on the Election Results

11. 6. 2010 / Václav Zoul

One incontestable success from these elections is that the group around Paroubek was pushed aside. We all know why and, at the same time, also that it happened way too late. The question is whether that was not another Pyrrhic victory in the sense that so far I haven't seen, within the new center right (better described as neoconservative) coalition, any mechanisms that could stop the corruption and destruction of the welfare state.

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I hope that it won't be so bad, but the price of getting rid of Paroubek can end up being way too high, perhaps even irreversible. That's what I am afraid about.

It would be appalling if it is true that the middle class is the only class that works against itself. Even otherwise clever people were able to fall for the so obvious bluffing that they were offered -- viz TOP 09's program -- or for the perspective that the Minister of Foreign Affairs would be Alexander Vondra etc.

Sometimes the whole thing reminds me the Pied Piper story. Now we have no other way but to hope that to the top of the Social Democratic party ascend people who will be able to promote real grounded social democratic politics and not that mockery played by Paroubek's gang.

Maybe the person who will do that job will be that Hašek or Onderka, perhaps, from behind-the-scenes, even Vladimir Špidla. It is necessary to give it a real philosophical base and not that "hick", "redneck" type of marketing, which offended the real social democrats (and only them, but the whole Left). Too bad so many years have been wasted.

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