The political crisis in East-Central Europe

This newspaper asked political scientists from the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia to explain the political crises in East-Central Europe. Bohumil Dolezal, former advisor to Czech President Václav Klaus, provided this analysis: "The political system of Western European countries generally has a balance between those parties that stress individuality and those that stress solidarity. The larger parties respect the common values of liberal democracy. However in East-Central Europe, there is a lack of common values shared equally by the right and left... In the Czech Republic the cleft between the right and the left in politics is at its greatest. It is the only country in the region whose communist party, based on the Soviet system, still has tremendous voter backing."

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