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Czech Prime Minister\u00a0Andrej Babi\u0161 made big claims last year about clamping down on corruption and safeguarding whistleblowers. Yet critics are now accusing the government of being much less willing to act than their talk would suggest.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Babi\u0161 took leadership of the anti-corruption council last summer, the first sitting prime minister to do so.<\/p>\n

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And yet the reality has not matched the rhetoric. Many voices from civil society are complaining that very little has changed.<\/p>\n

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\u201cExperience shows that if the government doesn\u2019t start promoting reforms in the early stage of their term, very often nothing happens at the end and that leads to great disappointment,\u201d said\u00a0David Ondr\u00e1\u010dka<\/strong>\u00a0of Transparency International. \u201cIn my view, the time is now to come up with proposals and try to generate political consensus. Otherwise it will be lost in translation and nothing will happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The government has dismissed these claims, with justice ministry\u2019s spokesman\u00a0Vladim\u00edr \u0158epka saying,\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cThe ministry of justice has prepared three concrete laws \u2026 The law concerning the Supreme Audit Office has been approved by government and was submitted to Parliament in December 2018. We also have the law on lobbying, which will contain a new amendment concerning the activity. This proposal was submitted to government on the December 27.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Critics have countered that the reforms are simply recycled bills which the ruling party have already voted down before.<\/p>\n

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In terms of tangible progress, and, critically, public confidence in such progress, there is sadly a long way to go.<\/p>\n

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