Government of Lubomír Štrougal V

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The Czechoslovak government Lubomír Štrougal V , led by Prime Minister Lubomír Štrougal , was in office from June 16, 1986 to April 20, 1988. It followed the Lubomír Štrougal IV government and was replaced by the Lubomír Štrougal VI government .

Government formation, program

The government came into being after the general elections of May 1986. In his government declaration of June 24, 1986, which was designed for five years as usual, Štrougal mentioned a number of things that seem retrospective and unusual in the context. The demand to intensify production is one of the usual phrases, but Štrougal has this in connection with “non-tolerance of the plan failure”, with further “restructuring of economic management”, with greater “freedom” and “economic responsibility” for economic objects as well as with the Need to arouse an interest in employees to get involved.

This happened after Gorbachev was elected general secretary in the SU in 1985 , and after the XVII. Congress of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in March 1986 showed no reaction to it. After Gorbachev's election, Štrougal, who for a long time was the guarantor of normalization alongside the party leader Husák , but also a pragmatist, clearly sided with perestroika and the necessary reforms in Czechoslovakia: the term “reform” has been around since the crackdown the Prague Spring a taboo word. In January 1987, at the same time as the plenum of the CPSU Central Committee at the end of January, he once again clearly underlined the need for reforms, while at the same time suggesting that the economic reforms would have to be accompanied by political changes. This was understood as a quasi declaration of war on the conservative forces of the party (months later corresponding media reports could also be read in the western press).

In December 1987, at a meeting of the Central Committee of the CPC, a new General Secretary of the party was elected. Štrougal was also interested in this post, but on Husák's recommendation, the hardliner Miloš Jakeš was elected, who was considered an antipole to Perestrojka. Due to this change of personalities, some changes were made in the party at the April session of the party's Central Committee. On April 20, due to the Constitutional Law 42/1988 Coll., Some changes were made to the federal government (including a reduction in the number of ministries), which led to the installation of the new Lubomír Štrougal VI government on April 21, 1988 , without the media reporting actual resignation of the Štrougal V government.

Government composition

The ministers were in office throughout the regular term of office (June 16, 1986 to April 20, 1988) unless otherwise stated.

Party affiliation

The government was formed from the unified list of the National Front , which consisted of the dominant Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and bloc parties .

Governments of the constituent republics

Parallel to the government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, the two partial republics ( Czech Socialist Republic and Slovak Socialist Republic , both only from 1969) also had their own government:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Od Pražského jara do Revoluce 1989 , website of the Government of the Czech Republic (History of the Office of the Government), online at: vlada.cz / ...
  2. ↑ Walter Suess : With mixed feelings: On the acceptance of the Soviet reform in the "brother countries" , in: Prokla / Problems of the class struggle. Journal for Political Economy and Socialist Politics, 1987/4 (96), Rotbuch Verlqag, Berlin, p. 81, online at: prokla.de/
  3. ↑ Martin Štefek: Proces změn uvnitř Komunistické strany Československa v letech 1987 - 1989 , Charles University in Prague, online at: is.cuni.cz / ... , p. 30ff.
  4. ^ For example, the CSSR premier is pushing for reforms - same goals, different paths as in 1968 , in: Die Presse, June 22, 1988, Vienna, cited above. according to: Martin Štefek: Proces změn uvnitř Komunistické strany Československa v letech 1987 - 1989 , Charles University in Prague, online at: is.cuni.cz / ... , p. 33
  5. ↑ Ústavní zákon č. 42/1988 Sb. , Online at: zakonyprolidi.cz / ...
  6. ↑ Jmenování federální vlády , in Rudé právo April 22, 1988, p. 1, online at: archiv.ucl.cas.cz / ...
  7. ^ Website of the Government of the Czech Republic, Overview of the Government of Lubomír Štrougal V, on: vlada.cz / ...

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  • Website of the Government of the Czech Republic, Overview of the Lubomír Štrougal V Government, on: vlada.cz / ...

See also

Web links

  • Programové prohlášení vlády (government declaration) of June 24, 1986, online at: vlada.cz/assets / ...