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| | Party Politics Vol. 1, Issue 4, p. 565 |
 | | Against it, the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (CPBM) is widely perceived to occupy an ideologically extreme position on the left of the political spectrum,symbolized by the fact that, alone among the successor parties in the region, it chose to retain its old name (Wightman, 1993; Ishiyama, 1995;Mansfeldova and Kitschelt, 1995). |
 | | Clearly, the most successful electoral performance has been that of the former communist party in Hungary which, as the Hungarian Socialist Party (HSP), has stood on a platform of support for a social safety net while continuing in a more competent manner with marketization,which it can claim to have begun while still in power. |
 | | In the Czech lands, the CPBM appears to face the greatest obstacles and must either move much further to the right - which might be difficult given its current support and the reputation it has established with voters - or await a very significant reorientation of public opinion in the light of economic failure. |
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