Bém: Hudeček’s Blanka project is just a hysterical scream
Black or legal construction? The division around the billion-dollar Blanka tunnel complex is gaining momentum. According to the expressor Pavel Bém (ODS), the current mayor Tomáš Hudeček (TOP 09) is trying to save his neck. According to Bém, the city council and the council decided on the contract for the tunnel complex between Prague and Metrostav, which is building Blanka. And so it is valid. Bem thus reacted to Hudeček’s claim that the contract did not apply.
“Of course, the council and the Prague City Council decided on the contract for Blanka, and I suspect unanimously. However, it is difficult to imagine that the council should approve 200-page contracts and hundreds of other contracts resulting from them, “Pavel Bém told the E15.cz server. According to Bém, the task of the council is to decide on the contract, the winner, the price and the method of its financing.
In the archive, the resolutions of the Prague councilors can really be found, for example material of September 26, 2006, by which the council approved the winner of the tender for the construction of the tunnel complex, or Council Resolution of 10 April 2007, in which it decided to award the contract to Metrostav. According to Hudeček, the city will now have a legal opinion drawn up on the conclusion of the inspection department. This is to confirm or refute the union’s conclusions. He then deduces further steps from it, including possible criminal reports.
“If Hudeček’s crazy construction about the validity / invalidity of contracts were to be valid, then no lease agreements, lease agreements, agreements on the sale or purchase of property would apply at all in the Czech Republic,” Bém added.
Plan of the Blanka tunnel complex
According to Bém, the mayor is trying to cover up his own incompetence, irresponsibility and “dilettantism” through current negotiations. He added that the law was also decided by the government and state authorities by law, not only by municipalities or regions. “Dozens of lawyers working on contract documents. The contract itself, especially the contractual documentation, governs the methodology of yellow or red FIDIC (EU / EC), “said Bém.
Prague does not pay to Metrostav
The capital announced on Wednesday that the entire contract between Prague and Metrostav for the construction of Blanka is invalid from the beginning, and therefore wants to go to an arbitration court. “The city has paid tens of billions of crowns without a legitimate reason and cannot continue this violation,” Hudeček said, referring to a report from the municipality’s control department. So far, Prague has already paid 25 billion crowns for the construction. According to the mayor, the former leadership of Prague from the era of the expressor Pavel Bém is probably responsible for the situation. According to some politicians, the validity of the agreement is to be questioned by the fact that some amendments were signed instead of politicians by very powerful municipal officials at the time, such as Jiří Toman, the head of investments.
Hudeček’s approach was also criticized by former Prague ODS councilor Aleksander Udženi. “Stopping the construction of Blanka will bring additional costs for Prague in billions – who does it suit again? The expressor Bohuslav Svoboda never wanted to do all this – isn’t that also one of the reasons why he was dismissed by TOPka and the CSSD? ”Udženija writes on his Facebook profile.
For example, according to former Deputy Mayor Petr Hulinsky (CSSD), there were as many other contracts in Prague. Hulinský told ČTK that I do not yet know what is written in the inspection protocol on which the city management is based. “But I can’t imagine that all the contracts from 1992 to 2013, which were signed by capital officials, would be invalid,” he said.
The management of the club of ODS representatives also opposed the current management of the city. “The ODS declares that the construction of the Blanka tunnel complex was duly approved by the then city management and repeatedly discussed during the TOP 09 coalition and the ODS in the capital council,” the club chairman and then-deputy mayor Rudolf Blažek (ODS) wrote.
“Representatives of the city leadership for TOP 09, led by Mayor Hudeček, are thus trying to get rid of only the responsibility for not managing this construction and not deciding on what is needed to complete the construction,” he added, adding that Prague faces hundreds of millions in damage. The ODS therefore demands that an extraordinary meeting of the capital council be convened.
Metrostav wants to suspend the construction of the tunnel from December 7 due to the fact that Prague already owes it more than 2.1 billion crowns. Its canning cost 1.6 billion crowns.