Русская версияParoubek seeks to get rid of Slouf, former chief adviser to former CSSD long serving chairman Milos Zeman.
On Tuesday, the party's central control commission again discussed the case of Slouf whom CSSD general secretary Jiri Havlicek accused of acting contrary to the party's election manifesto in the February presidential elections.
Slouf then lobbied for the re-election of Vaclav Klaus, official canidate of the senior ruling Civic Democrats (ODS), at variance with the CSSD's official position.
The commission is expected to make a decision on Slouf's future in the party on Friday.
Slouf says he firmly believes that Paroubek is behind the complaint against him.
"If there is direct election of the party chairman I will certainly not vote for Paroubek," he told Pravo but declined to say whom he would vote for.
Slouf who established the association of Milos Zeman's Friends that groups many opponents of Paroubek within the CSSD denied that the association's main goal is to oust Paroubek.
"This is not in our programme.
Paroubek must win his fight for the re-election himself," Slouf told Pravo.
He said the association had its own website on which an application for membership is also placed.
Slouf denied that the association's goal is to turn itself into a party.
"We are not creating any party in regions or municipalities. However, if the situation forces us to do so, we will consider it. However, it is party members in regions who will make the decision," Slouf, who earlier did not rule out his ritual expulsion from the party, said.
Paroubek on Tuesday downplayed the association's importance in an interview with Pravo.
He said he saw no reason to be nervous because there is allegedly no connection between the association and the CSSD.
After the 2006 elections to the Chamber of Deputies in which the CSSD was defeated by the ODS and lost its dominant position Zeman who was prime minister of the CSSD-led government in 1998-2002 clashed with Paroubek. Last year, he left the party in protest against Paroubek's policy.
(Ceske Noviny)
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