The Greens' having entered the government should not be solely described as Bursik's achievement, Kuchtova said. Kuchtova said the Greens should be a centrist party able to collaborate both with the left and the right. She said the existing coalition of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS), the Greens and the Christian Democrats was a good, but not sacrosanct project. "Without us, Bursik would not succeed.
He would not succeed alone. But this is also true the other way round," Kuchtova said. "You know that I support this government and it is certainly not true that I would like to change this political constellation," she told the delegates to the congress. Kuchtova said the behaviour of Czech Greens leader to leave govt if Kuchtova becomes party head ...
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Czech Greens head to present new party statutes ... the ODS to the ministers of the junior coalition parties had worsened. "The ministers of the small parties are increasingly losing influence," she said. For all the government's successes, failure should be listed, too, Kuchtova said. In Europe, the Greens tend to align themselves with the left, she added. The Greens may cooperate with the ODS, but as a centrist party they must be also able to cooperate with the Social Democrats and the Christian Democrats. Above all, they must not lose their character, Kuchtova said. Kuchtova previously occupied the post of education minister. However, she withdrew from the post last October in reaction to the ministry's troubles with the operational programmes for drawing money from EU funds.
(Ceske Noviny)
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