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Ongoing Communist Empowerment in the Czech Republic
The Czech Republic has been working without a certified authority for more than eight consecutive years now. This could be changed on July 11 if Andrei Babis is to gain a referendum of trust in this House in his second effort to establish a minority-rule.
Mr Babis' ANO governing body in the Social Democratic governing body depends on the Communist Party's backing. Other than elsewhere in Middle and East Europe, Czech Communism is traditionally linked to the organization that led the Czech Republic during the Coldwar. These connections with the past have so far made cooperation with the Nazis off-limits.
Mr Babis himself is a former member of the Greens' own faction, which since then has turned into an impenitent bourgeois activist, massacreist, and leader of the caucus. Reflecting his brand as a politically outsider, he heads the first Czech democratic Czech administration to work with the Communists. After the break-up of the Soviet Union, other post-Soviet Communist factions were either dissolved or under reform, often under a less corrupt Soviet bar.
However, the Czech Communists never abandoned a partisan story that included censure, show cases, court execution and the imprisonment of dissidents. Czechoslovakia, however, which was led by more ideological engaged Communists, remained persistent until the fall of the regim. The first postcommunist leader, Vaclav Havel, was not arrested until May 1989, and the Russian forces that entered Czechoslovakia in 1968 remained until 1991.
In spite of this balance, the Czech Communists are present in the Czech Republic's parliamentary assembly. Although its voting in the 2017 election fell to 7.8%, the Greens generally received the backing of around 10% of the constituents while taking part in grassroots and provincial governors. Formerly a stereotype of the pensioners' nostalgia group, the Communists countered the impact of population declines by turning to new constituents affected by globalization and receiving their greatest assistance in the financially troubled post-industrial northwest of the Czech Republic.
Now that the same electorate is attracted to extreme right-wing political groups, the Communists hope that by cooperating with the authorities and exerting their authority, they can reaffirm their call. Although not nominal in the administration, the Communists have the opportunity topple Mr Babis at any time and thus have a minimum of clout.
Whilst Mr Babis promises to keep the Czech people in the Brussels capital, Milos Zeman (the country's irregular president) and the Communists stay loyal to their Chinese and Russian colleagues. Liberals in the Czech Republic (who are part of the opposition), not to mention the Czech people who were suffering under the twentieth-century Communist government, are horrified by these trends.
However, one has the feeling that in a parliamentary assembly that is also inhabited by popularists, members of the Pirate Party and foreigners, today's Communists are no longer the most evil.