The controversy over Klaus's re-election meant that when Petr Necas, the leader of the centre-right Civic Democrat party (ODS), was attempting to form a government after the 2010 parliamentary elections, several of his prospective coalition partners made their cooperation conditional on the new government making reform of the presidential election system part of its programme.

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Despite the West's seal of approval for the election result, support for Mr Karzai in the long term is ambivalent and conditional on his doing a better job of running a clean and competent government.

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