Czech Republic lacks political stability

The Czech Republic's centre-right government threatens to collapse after just nine months in power. Prime Minister Petr Nečas plans to rotate three ministers belonging to his junior party Public Affairs (VV) who are involved in a spying and corruption affair. The party VV is said to have close ties with the controversial private security agency ABL. According to the liberal Slovakian daily Sme, Nečas is right to sense a threat to democracy: "Ministers who are allied with ABL have no place in the government. There can be no talk of democracy if the state is being managed by a private firm. To be sure the prime minister will lose his majority without VV. ... Early elections then? But how many voters will go to the polls? Last year they were told the country had finally attained political stability. But that didn't even last a year."

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