Shifting Balance Of Power

With parliamentary elections due in June 2006, it is the political left that continues to maintain the momentum, after recovering from near collapse earlier in 2005. Although the conservative opposition Civic Democrats (ODS) remain favourites to win the most votes in the election, an emerging trend of enhanced, if informal, co-operation between the incumbent Social Democrats (CSSD) and the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSCM) increases the uncertainty surrounding the formation of a new government. Moreover, the ODS does not seem to have completely reliable support from the Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL) – its natural junior coalition partner – which

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