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1997–1998 Czech political crisis

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422: 429: 974: 880: 70:. Instability of government also worsened with economical problems of the country. Annual report of finances for 1995 showed that biggest sponsors of ODS are Lajos Bács a Radjiv M. Sinha. These names were revealed to be fictional and speculations that Milan Šrejber is the real sponsor behind these names showed up in media. Šrejber privatised 122:(US). US quickly became second strongest party according to polls having more than 10%. Poll by STEM had Freedom Union on 18% while Civic Democrats would receive only 8%. Remains of ODS united behind Klaus who was during campaign for snap election in June presented as the only strong leader of Czech 546: 516: 779: 687: 807: 657: 667: 1289: 793: 800: 672: 1454: 786: 584: 89: 63: 360: 677: 1384: 828: 835: 814: 451: 1274: 993: 758: 842: 917: 765: 446: 988: 821: 363: 682: 101: 164: 1182: 1505: 78:
accepted responsibility for the irregularities. Mladá Fronta Dnes informed on 28 November 1997 that ODS has a secret bank account in Switzerland.
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decided to run against Klaus. Klaus won by very large margin and remained leader of the Civic Democratic Party.
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to step down as a leader of ODS. Klaus was at the time in Sarajevo. Klaus himself called their actions
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When Klaus returned from Sarajevo, he resigned as prime minister. This led to appointment of interim
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then left the government. Government ministers of ODS Jan Ruml and Ivan Pilip publicly appealed to
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then stepped down as Deputy Chairman of ODS and from position of Minister of Foreign affairs.
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was short of majority by one seat. Coalition then formed minority cabinet tolerated by
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General debate of the sixty-seventh session of the United Nations General Assembly
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General debate of the sixty-sixth session of the United Nations General Assembly
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won the election but was unable to form majority government. Klaus then signed
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Ruml's and Pilip's wing then left the party and on 17 January 1998 formed
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in 1997–1998 started as a result of irregularities in finances of
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Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party
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Index

Civic Democratic Party
Václav Klaus
Civic Democratic Party
snap election in 1998
Civic Democratic Party
Václav Klaus
1996 legislative election
Civic Democratic Alliance
Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party
Czech Social Democratic Party
Třinec Iron and Steel Works
Libor Novák
Josef Zieleniec
Civic Democratic Alliance
Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party
Václav Klaus
assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
government
Jan Ruml
Freedom Union
right
Czech Social Democratic Party
Opposition Agreement
Miloš Zeman
Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic



"Tzv. "sarajevský atentát" odstartoval zatím největší politickou krizi v ČR"

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