Final Word from Thursday, September 27, 2012
A prominent ČSSD official wrote us that Václav Klaus was acting
in the interest of the people by vetoing the pension laws. Jiří
Pehe, a pro-ČSSD analyst, wrote in Právo today that if Klaus is
trying to bring down the government, he should do it openly,
because fresh elections are the only thing that can keep the
country from smothering. ČSSD's enthusiasm for Klaus's recent
actions is as shortsighted as it is partisan. If Bohuslav Sobotka or
Michal Hašek were the PM, ČSSD would be singing a completely
different tune. It's another master stroke that Klaus has enlisted
his arch ČSSD enemies in his own self-interested game. What will
these giddy opportunists think when Klaus engineers Petr
Nečas's downfall, installs Martin Kuba as PM, and then allows
Kuba to remain indefinitely in the post, even if the new
government doesn't win confirmation from Parliament? So much
for ČSSD's early elections.[Czech Republic president]
Glossary of difficult words
to smother - to suffocate; to die or cause to die from lack of air or inability to breathe;
master stroke - an outstandingly skillful and opportune act; a very clever act;
arch - chief, leading;
giddy - dizzy, light-headed.