Communist party ban absurd

The conservative government camp in the Czech Republic is considering outlawing the communist KSČM party. Two decades after the fall of the communist regime this would not just be hypocritical but also a tactical error, the leftist daily Právo writes: "The moral outrage over the communists becomes more hypocritical with each year that passes. Each and every one of the parliamentary parties has worked together more or less closely with the KSČM in the past 20 years, if only at a local level. In Prague Castle we have a president who would not have risen to power in 2003 without the help of the communists. Basically removing the KSČM from parliament would be more disadvantageous for the right than for the Social Democrats of the ČSSD. The right would give the ČSSD a direct boost by banning the communists, because some of the communist voters would switch allegiance to the Social Democrats. ... The right is therefore playing with fire here. If it manages to push through the ban on the communists it could end up banishing itself to the opposition for many years."

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