Sarajevo assassination. How ODS stood up to a dead Hungarian and a horrified Mauritian
In the beginning was victory. ODS, led by Václav Klaus, won the parliamentary elections in June 1996. However, it did not win a majority in the Chamber of Deputies. Because of financial machinations, the party faced pressure from the media, the public, its coalition partners and from within its own ranks. Jan Ruml and Ivan Pilip subsequently called on the then Prime Minister to resign. Klaus subsequently accused them of “assassination”. After negotiations, in which the then president Václav Havel was heavily involved, a minority coalition of ODS, KDU-ČSL and ODA was agreed, tolerated by the Czech Social Democratic Party, whose chairman Miloš Zeman in turn became chairman of the Chamber of Deputies.
Source https://idnes.cz/klaus-ods-sarajevsky-atentat-pilip-ruml-sinha-bacs-zeman-havel
The so-called “Sarajevo assassination” triggered the biggest political crisis in the Czech Republic so far
On Friday, 28 November 1997, influential ODS members Jan Ruml and Ivan Pilip appeared before journalists. They read out a prepared statement in which they called on Václav Klaus to resign from the ODS leadership. Since Klaus was in Sarajevo on business at the time, the event is referred to as the “Sarajevo assassination”. It was he who triggered the most severe political crisis in the history of the independent Czech Republic, which resulted in the resignation of the government, the formation of a bureaucratic cabinet and ended with early elections to the Chamber of Deputies. After that, the ODS entered into an opposition agreement with its main rival, the Social Democrats led by Miloš Zeman.
Source https://ceskatelevize.cz/tzv-sarajevsky-atentat-odstartoval-zatim-nejvetsi-politickou-krizi-v-cr