Nearly seven out of ten Czechs believe that the churches should not regain the property that was taken away from them under the communist regime, according to a STEM agency's poll released yesterday.
In October, the Czech coalition government of Petr Necas (Civic Democrats, ODS) approved the outlines of a property settlement with churches within which the state is to pay 59 billion crowns over 30 years and return 56 percent of the property the former Czechoslovak authorities confiscated from the churches after the 1948 communist coup.
But the junior coalition Public Affairs (VV) expressed reservations about the state-church property settlement shortly before Christmas. The cabinet will deal with the issue after New Year.
More than one third of Czechs (35 percent) are strongly against the return of the property to churches and another third (34 percent) is rather against this plan. The rest of the population supports the property settlement between the state and churches.
The public opinion on the return of the confiscated property is more or less the same in the past two years.
A poll that STEM released on Tuesday showed that three out of five Czechs do not consider churches useful institutions.
Almost all of those who do not consider churches useful are against the return of the property.
Not only churches but also towns and villages are looking forward to the passage of the bill because a lot of former church property has been blocked and town halls cannot do anything with the plots.
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