Paroubek responsible for election failure

The results of an analysis commissioned by the Social Democrats suggest that former party leader Jiří Paroubek is to blame for the party’s election failure in the recent general elections. Although the party technically won the elections, it did so only by a small margin which left it unable to form a government.

The analysis, commissioned by the acting party chairman, Bohuslav Sobotka, says that the former leader’s aggressive style of campaigning and his poor performance in one-on-one tv debates with his main rival Petr Necas of the Civic Democrats had put off many potential and undecided voters.