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Havel says grand coalition would be worst election result.
(From Czech News Agency)
PRAGUE, Jan 1 (CTK) - Former president Vaclav Havel said today that he is afraid of the possible emergence of a grand coalition of the senior opposition ODS and the senior ruling CSSD after the June general election.
"I find this the worst possible variant," Havel said in the Questions of Vaclav Moravec discussion programme on the public Czech Television (CT).
Havel said that if the two big parties formed a coalition, they might repeat their attempt to change the election law to the detriment of small parties.
The ODS and CSSD made the attempt during the existence of the opposition agreement which they signed after the 1998 elections. The ODS tolerated the minority CSSD government in exchange for a portion of political and economic influence under the agreement.
The ODS was then headed by Vaclav Klaus, now Czech president, and Milos Zeman, who now lives in voluntary retirement in his countryside cottage.
ODS chairman Mirek Topolanek rules out the possibility of forming a grand coalition while PM Jiri Paroubek (CSSD) said the grand coalition could be formed as an extreme solution to the post-election situation.
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