The search for a "new" ČSSD is a way to cover up the commercial activities of the "old" ČSSD. Bohuslav Sobotka had the perfect opportunity yesterday to lure young and urban voters to the "new" ČSSD by meeting with the Dalai Lama, but he instead put the commercial interests of ČSSD a.s. first. Remember, this is the same Sobotka who preached Havelism in the U.S. and then went to Beijing to sign a secret memorandum of cooperation with the Chinese Communist Party, which he only dropped because the document leaked. Sobotka preaches Havelism in the US but kiss-ass commercialism in China. In this sense he risks becoming ČSSD's version of Miroslav Kalousek, who drags TOP 09 down because of his parachutes that wouldn't open, Kapsch toll contract and church restitution. The reality is that ČSSD a.s. no longer represents ČSSD, if it ever did. Labor leader Josef Středula is doing a better job of representing ČSSD's voters than Sobotka is.