Demythologising the Czech opposition agreement
Demythologising the Czech opposition agreement
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揭开捷克反对派协议的神秘面纱
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2003
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A. Roberts
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对捷克政治舞台的许多观察家来说，1998年7月8日证实了他们最担心的事情。就在议会选举两周后，议会第一大党捷克社会民主党宣布与议会第二大党公民民主党签署了所谓的“反对党协议”。该协议规定，ODS将允许中央社会民主党作为少数政府单独执政。作为回报，ODS将获得一些议会席位，两党将共同通过几项宪法修正案。捷克政治学家和评论家的反应几乎一致是负面的。总统瓦茨拉夫·哈维尔称该联盟“不神圣”。基督教民主联盟的领导人约瑟夫·勒克斯认为该协议违宪，并发誓要在法庭上提出异议。评论员甚至将其比作共产党时代的国民阵线政府。更具体的批评集中在其对稳定、民主以及重要社会和经济改革命运的负面影响上。即使在四年运行结束时，政治观察员对该协议的负面态度几乎与开始时一样。
For many observers of the Czech political scene, 8 July 1998 was confirmation of their worst fears. It was then, two weeks after parliamentary elections, that the largest party in parliament, the Czech Social Democratic Party (CˇSSD), announced that it had signed what came to be known as the ‘opposition agreement’ with the Civic Democratic Party (ODS), the second largest party in parliament. The agreement stated that ODS would allow CˇSSD to govern alone as a minority government. In return, ODS would receive a number of parliamentary posts and the two parties would together adopt several constitutional amendments. The reaction of Czech political scientists and commentators was almost unanimously negative. President Va´clav Havel called the alliance ‘unholy’. The head of the Christian Democratic Union (KDU-CˇSL), Josef Lux, believed the agreement to be unconstitutional and vowed to contest it in court. Commentators even likened it to the communist-era national front governments. More specific criticisms focused on its negative consequences for stability, democracy and the fate of important social and economic reforms. Even at the end of its four-year run, political observers remained almost as negatively disposed to the agreement as they were at the start.