Kuba blames involvement in amnesty and Nagyová affair for Civic Democrats’ predicament

Outgoing caretaker chairman Martin Kuba had earlier told the Civic Democrats congress that a number of factors had contributed to the party’s poor performance in the general elections. Mr. Kuba blamed the failure on a controversial January 2013 amnesty by then president Václav Klaus that was signed off on by then prime minister Petr Nečas, as well as on a scandal last summer in which Mr. Nečas’s chief aide and future wife Jana Nagyová was charged in connection with alleged corruption and spying. These factors made it impossible to save the party in the run-up to the elections, Mr. Kuba said.

Author: Ian Willoughby