Writer Milan Kundera hardly goes to Prague, and he is not even included in the official directory of Czech Writers published by the Czech Culture Ministry for international book fairs. Martina Navratilov or Ivana Trump do not choose to live in Prague. To a large degree, the distrust of indigenous Czechs towards their fellow citizens who have spent some time in the West survives unabated and is one of the key reasons why Madeleine Albright would be unacceptable as Czech President. Madeleine Albright would also not be welcomed in Czech politics, because she would be regarded as too dangerous a competitor for the conspiracy of the squabbling, mediocre, local politicians. And for the ordinary citizens of the Czech Republic, Madeleine Albright is unacceptable for an additional reason.
Most Czech citizens are now rather frustrated with politics.
On the Czech political scene, the two largest parties, the Social Democrats and the Civic Democrats, have in effect, concluded a coalition agreement and are changing the Constitution toward a majority voting system, which, in the view of cynics, will be designed to keep these two parties in power for ever after, at the expense of any fresh or dissenting voices. Thus, ordinary Czech citizens now primarily feel disappointment about what is happening to democracy in their country. Their frustration over the barrenness of current Czech politics, coupled with their fear of unemployment has led many Czechs to lend their support to the reconstructed Communist Party, which has recently been the second most popular party in the country with double figure support. As a final note, it would appear that one of the main purposes of Madeleine Albright's recent visit to the Czech Republic was to prevent the Czechs from exporting ventilation equipment to a nuclear power station in Iran. Obviously, Madeleine Albright does not visit Germany as often as the Czech Republic.