Sobotka says Social Democrats must compose themselves after poll puts party on 10 percent

Chairman Bohuslav Sobotka says the Social Democrats need to pull themselves together and begin leading a proper election campaign after an opinion poll put the party on 10 percent support and in fourth place. The prime minister told Wednesday’s edition of Právo that his party needed to stop focusing on itself and speculating about what would follow October’s general elections. Mr. Sobotka said the current, Social Democrat-led government was extraordinarily successful and had clearly improved the country in four years. A poll by the Kantar TNS agency released on Sunday put the Social Democrats behind ANO (on 31.5 percent), the Civic Democrats (11.5 percent) and the Communists (10.5 percent).