Some ministers are entirely opposed to dealing with the civil procedure case, he said. "By no means will we enter the civil dispute.
A part of the government believes we should never do so, the other part says we should at least reflect it by discussing it after the dispute is closed," Topolanek (Civic Democrats, ODS) said. The junior ruling Greens (SZ) originally wanted Vesecka's dismissal to be debated immediately after the Prague Regional Court said that opposition's shadow justice minister Marie Benesova need not apologise to a group of high judicial officials, Czech attorney says she faced pressure for Cunek case protraction ...
Czech KDU-CSL head says dispute over U.S. report solved ... including Vesecka, for having called them "judicial mafia." Explaining the verdict, judge Vojtech Cepl pointed to last year's unusual meetings the officials had with Zlatuse Andelova, an attorney supervising the case of suspected corruption of Cunek, deputy prime minister and head of the junior ruling Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL), which Cepl said was their inadmissible interference in the case. Commentators say the meetings and alleged pressure on Andelova might have been initiated by the government for fear of destabilisation if criminal charges were brought against Cunek. In mid-2007 Vesecka's office took the Cunek case away from Andelova's subordinate and transferred it to another attorney who eventually halted the prosecution. Topolanek supported Vesecka immediately after the verdict was ruled a few days ago. The opposition wants Vesecka to go, but Vesecka said she would not do so as in her opinion the court verdict is a politically motivated attempt to return the Cunek case to the political battlefield. She said on Sunday that the verdict's explanation contains serious mistakes and is expedient. Apart from Vesecka, the opposition also demands the dismissal of another participants in the controversial meetings, Supreme Court deputy head Pavel Kucera, who, Andelova said, told her at one of the meeting that "independence of judiciary must give in to political interests" in Cunek's case.
(Ceske Noviny)
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