In an interview for the daily Mladá fronta Dnes, recently-resigned
education minister Josef Dobeš said that Public Affairs was a dead party
that could not hope for a recovery. Dobeš, who publicly withdrew his
membership from Public Affairs last week, said there was no crisis to
speak
of because the party was already finished and could expect nothing more
than local representation in the near future. Its credit as an
anti-corruption party was exhausted, he said, adding that while the party
itself was not corrupt, its image had become comic. He also said that he
felt sorry for Vít Bárta, who had lost everything and without whom it
would be impossible to keep the party together.