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The leader of the right-of-centre Civic Democrats, Vaclav Klaus, speaking to reporters on Monday after the party published a report on the recent parliamentary elections. The elections were a disaster for Mr Klaus's party - after months of running neck-and-neck with the ruling Social Democrats, the June poll saw the opposition party score their worst ever election result. And as Rob Cameron reports now, the Civic Democrats have some soul-searching to do.  More