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Egg bombardment disrupts Czech leftists
Wed May 27, 2009 3:26pm EDT
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PRAGUE (Reuters) - Czech activists pelted the leader of the leftist Social Democrats with hundreds of eggs at a rally on Wednesday ahead of European and national elections.
The incident illustrated growing political tensions in the central European country fed by a personal rivalry between ex-Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek and leftist leader Jiri Paroubek. Paroubek triggered the fall of Topolanek's cabinet in March, halfway through the country's term as EU president.
The European Parliament election on June 5-6 is followed by a national poll planned for October.
Topolanek's backers have criticized Paroubek for his tough style and fear he could join forces with the unreconstructed Communist Party if he were to win the October vote.
A crowd of mostly young protesters outnumbered the supporters of the leftist party at a campaign stop in downtown Prague, a right-wing stronghold, on Wednesday.
"We are here because we are afraid that the Social Democrats might team up with the Communists and our parents told us that communism was a nasty period," said Jakub Mares, 19, a political science and law student.
Paroubek was hit about a dozen times but remained on the stage, ignoring deafening whistles from the crowd.
"I feel sorry for you," he told the protesters. Police arrested 16 people for disturbing the peace.
President Vaclav Klaus condemned the attacks and said violence and intolerance during campaigning was "an attack on the principle of democratic competition among parties."
EGG-THROWING
Campaign violence has been unknown in the Czech Republic since it embraced democracy in 1989 following four decades of totalitarian communist rule. Many Czechs still regard the Communists as unfit to hold power.
An activist first hit Paroubek with an egg earlier this month. Since then, 47,000 have joined a group of egg-throwers on the social networking site Facebook and Paroubek has been unable to hold campaign events without them being disrupted.
The Social Democrats had led most opinion polls ahead of the European Parliament vote but the latest surveys show the Civic Democrats edging ahead.
Paroubek has won support mainly among poorer Czechs for promising to take care of those hit by the economic crisis, reverse reforms that he says favor the rich, and rid the country of what he says are the corrupt practices of the past.
Paroubek has not ruled out forming a minority cabinet, which could depend on Communists votes, but an outright coalition with the anti-EU and anti-NATO party is very unlikely. Continued...
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