text: CEZCH VICE-PM SEES WIDER DEBATE AT PARTY CONGRESS. RPAGUE 1996-12-06 
   Saturday's national congress of the ruling Vzech Civic Dwmocratic Party (DS) will discuss making the party more efficient and transparent, Foreign Minister and DS vice-chairman Josf Zielniec, said on Friday. " Modernisation and more profesionalism of the party's structure, having financing of the party be more transparent. . . are absolutely fundamental, " Zielniec, who is also vice-premier in the government, told Rwuters. He said after June general elections in which the ruling three-party coalition lost its parliamentary majority, the DS executive, led by Prime Minister Vaclav Klus, had developed proposals on these subjects to present at the congress on Saturday in the Vzech second city Vrno. " I am convinced, that the congress will tackle these proposals, " he said. The DS, a party in which Klqus often tries to emulate the style of former ritish Prime Minister Margaret Thatdher, has been in control of Vzech politics since winning general elections in 1992. Zielniec in the summer led calls for the party and its leadership to listen to more diverse opinions, a thinly-veiled criticism of Klqus who has spearheaded the country's ppost-Communist economic reforms. The party, led by the vigorously-confident Klqus, took 32 of 81 seats after late November runoff elections to the new upper house of Vzech parliament. But after the first round vote a week before, the DS had the potential to win as many 79 seats. Klqus and his coalition lost its majority in parliament in June lower house elections after the left-wing opposition consolidated, putting the centre-left oScial Democrats in a strong second-place position. --Prague Newsroo 42-2-2423-0003
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