“Two resolutions were adopted. The national conference expresses confidence in Marian Jurečka to continue as the leader of the party and in the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs,” Jurečka read to journalists on Friday evening.
He added, however, that if the leadership of the People’s Party fails to reverse the trend of declining preferences, he will not run for the chairmanship of the KDU-ČSL at the next convention. “But at this moment, I think that I and the presidency have a mandate determined by the convention,” he emphasized.
At the same time, he confirmed that the date of the electoral convention will remain in the fall. Until then, three elections await the party – European, regional and senate. 46 of the 85 delegates present were to vote for the resolution, 26 were against and 12 abstained.
Bartošek: There is general dissatisfaction in the KDU-ČSL
Jurečka will see it as a “reversal of the trend of decreasing preferences” when the party reaches at least five percent by autumn. “Ideally over her. The goal is also to keep two MEPs and strengthen the Senate club,” he outlined.
More bickering in the coalition
After Friday’s national conference, where Jurečka was supposed to clearly tell the delegates how to solve the internal party crisis, everything remains the same. But the leader of the people takes it differently. “I don’t see it as nothing happened,” he said.
“Today the conference did not only address the question of the convention, but whether I should continue to do something before the convention to improve work and our communication and emphatically state our priorities,” he said. “We will argue far more with our coalition partners,” promised Jurečka emphatically.
He considered resigning because of the Christmas party at the Ministry of Labor, which he did not end even after the consequences of the tragic shooting at the philosophy faculty were already known, and then kept silent about it and avoided responsibility.
He angered a part of the party, which subsequently started calling for his end. The “rebellion” was caused mainly by the people of České Budějovice, who at the same time wanted a convention as soon as possible. It was originally supposed to be in the spring, but the party moved it to the fall.
There is also long-term dissatisfaction in the KDU-ČSL due to electoral preferences, which range between two and three percent. So far below the five percent threshold needed to enter the House of Representatives.
