Dispute over ministerial appointment: Thousands of Czechs display for President Pavel | EUROtoday

Thousands of individuals are in additional than 400 cities and cities Czech Republic took to the streets to demonstratively help the liberal President Petr Pavel. As the CTK information company reported, the rally members adopted a name from the “Million Moments for Democracy” initiative to help the top of state in a dispute with the right-wing populist authorities.

According to the organizers, as much as 90,000 members had already gathered within the capital Prague on February 1st for a rally with the identical purpose. This time the opposite cities and smaller municipalities within the nation ought to observe swimsuit. On March twenty first, the identical protest initiative desires to carry a mass rally on Letna Hill in Prague with the slogan “We will not let our future be stolen!” set up.

“I stand with the president”

According to CTK data, 8,000 to 10,000 folks got here collectively within the Czech Republic’s second largest metropolis Brno (Brno in Czech), whereas in some smaller cities there have been only some hundred. Photos and movies revealed within the media of the rallies in cities corresponding to Ostrava and Pardubice confirmed folks carrying photos of President Pavel. But there have been additionally banners with crossed-out pictures of members of the federal government or with slogans corresponding to “I stand with the president” or “I am ashamed of the current government”.

Dispute over the ministerial publish

At the tip of January, President Pavel stated that Foreign Minister Petr Macinka, who can also be the chief of the co-ruling Motorists get together, was making an attempt to blackmail him. The motorists are demanding a ministerial publish for his or her honorary chairman Filip Turek. However, he’s stated to have made racist and sexist feedback up to now, which is why Pavel rejects him.

The coalition made up of Prime Minister Andrej Babis’s ANO get together, the Motorists and the ultra-right Freedom and Direct Democracy get together has a majority of 108 of the 200 seats within the House of Representatives.

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