In a programme broadcast last weekend, Nova TV showed Morava gathering sensitive materials about his colleagues with the aim to possibly blackmail them.
Among others, he reportedly tried to spread delicate photos featuring ODS "rebel" deputy Vlastimil Tlusty. However, it was Tlusty who had the snaps made as a "bait" to help uveil allegedly dirty practices in the lower house.Morava also had himself photographed with the daughter of Television reportage confirms Czech blackmailing scandal ...
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Jacques resigns as head Czech Greens' deputies ... Olga Zubova, a "rebel" deputy of the junior ruling Greens. He planned to use the photos to intimidate Zubova, Nova TV said.Morava resigned as a deputy earlier this week.Hasek said the lower house commission the CSSD wants to initiate should have a much broader task to deal with. It should also check unauthorised handling of classified information or information that is at secret services' and security forces' disposal.The commission should check whether such information was used to exert pressure on members of parliament, Hasek said.The CSSD wants to provoke a vote of no confidence in Mirek Topolanek's (ODS) centre-right government after the regional and Senate elections, due in October.It has called on voters to turn the elections ito a referendum on the performance of the government, consisting of the ODS, the Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL) and the Greens, and also on the U.S. radar that is to be installed on Czech soil with the government's consent, while a majority of Czechs and the opposition are against it.The CSSD believes that after the elections and together with the Communists (KSCM), a junior opposition party, and dissatisfied deputies among the ODS and the Greens, they could gain at least 101 votes in the planned no confidence vote, which are necessary for them to topple the government.
(Ceske Noviny)
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