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We’d seen paparazzi shots of ex-Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek in his birthday suit at Silvio Berlusconi’s villa. Now posters show him in his bathing trunks, surrounded by other leading lights of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) in like dis-attire. But of his own accord this time around, as part of the campaign for the early elections on 9/10 October.
The ODS has put the posters up along the roads used by vacationing nationals, and “politicians in swimsuits will be pursuing holidaymaking Czechs all the way to the sea in Croatia,” writes Idnes.cz. The Mladá Fronta DNES Czech daily explains on its website that five successive takes line the Croatian motorways, on which the politicos progressively disrobe. On the last one they are wearing diving masks and telling prospective voters, “Welcome to Croatia. Now you can leave us behind.”
“I hope there won’t be any traffic jams on the motorway so people won’t have time to get a closer look at us,” was all party VP Petr Gandalovič deigned to say on this score.
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