Breakfast Brief - 23 November 2009

NEWS ODS congress backs Topolánek's leadership The Civic Democrats did not vote on a new party head during the 20th ODS congress this weekend after only 142 of 523 delegates asked for an internal confidence vote on current chair Mirek Topolánek. Topolánek said on Saturday that changing the party's management before the elections would pave the way to power for rival Social Democrats and TOP 09. He also pledged to resign if ODS loses next year's parliamentary elections. Source: most Czech press