The communists emerged as the second most powerful party after the Czech regional elections. They are closing on the Social Democrats. And the Civic Democrats, occupying the third position, have turned into a party of lighter-weight category. Following the election results there was quite an uproar both in the Czech Republic and the surrounding countries. Because of that the notion of the communist triumf needs to be put into a more realistic light. First of all: the regional elections aren’t the Chamber of Deputies election. Considerably fewer people participate in them. Although the Czech politicians were assuring everybody that what the election was actually about was the people’s trust in the government, people, in reality, made their decisions based on