Democracy under threat in the Czech Republic

Ominous noises of Government by non-politicians are coming out of Prague this morning, a quote:

Topolanek said the parties agreed on Tuesday to an opposition demand for a new government of non-politicians to lead the country.

"In the name of reaching wide political consensus we are ready for the creation of a cabinet of non-partisans, with the support of all democratic parties," he said.

Social Democrat chief Jiri Paroubek said the parties had moved closer to a final agreement.

Chief Martin Bursik of a junior coalition party, the Greens, said there was an agreement that most likely election date was October 16-17.

All very well no doubt, but what guarantees exist for the non-politicians to honour the later General Election date and what about the membership of the EU in the interim which requires member states to be democracies. The Parties were not elected to hand governance to others, if such a precedent is allowed in the EU how many others in today's difficult environment might follow suit and how far in the future might a theoretical date for a subsequent election then be set? Dangerous territory, particularly in a Nation presently holding the rotating EU Presidency. I will report the comments of President Vaclav Klaus to these proposals on this blog as soon as I can find them! Hints of the developments in the growing power struggle can be gleaned in a report from China on arrangements for President Obama's visit to Prague on Saturday, linked here.