The Prague 1 coalition again removed opposition points from the program of deputies
Updates: 11/9/2021 12:15 PM
Released: 09.11.2021, 12:15
Prague – Representatives of Prague 1 will not discuss the topics proposed by the opposition at today’s meeting. The coalition TOP 09, STAN, ODS and ANO, with their narrow majority, excluded the bodies of the opposition Prague 1 from the program. The opposition wanted to discuss, for example, the issue of accommodation via Airbnb-type platforms, the problem of electric scooters, parking cards for residents, zero tolerance for slot machines or the privatization of Minister Petr Arenberger’s apartment. The coalition regularly eliminates the opposition body from the program.
Various coalition councilors have proposed the elimination of a total of seven points, which were included in the program by the leader of Prague 1 himself and former mayor Pavel Čižinský. According to coalition representatives, their discussion was not necessary. Coalition parties have a narrow majority of 13 votes in the 25-member council.
Čižinský wanted to discuss the issue of accommodation platforms, which are facing criticism from local residents, and according to Prague 1, the town hall management is not doing enough. Likewise, according to the opposition, it is not active enough on the issue of shared electric scooters, which the local population criticizes because of the indiscipline of their users.
Another point of exclusion was the repeatedly discussed issue of the privatization of an apartment with a surgery in Bolzanova Street by the former Ministry of Health, Petr Arenberger. Čižinský has long been pushing for the city district to withdraw from the privatization agreement because, according to him, Arenberger canceled its conditions.
The former mayor also wanted to negotiate a zero tolerance for slot machines, which, according to him, is insufficiently enforced by the town hall management. Prague 1 The management of the city district to gambling has also long criticized itself. Other decommissioned bodies concerned the failure to set up a volunteer fire brigade, previously promised and still uninvolved physical parking cards for residents, and the “abuse of the control committee to harass the opposition.”
In the first part of the city, since last January, the citizens who live here (STAN and Iniciativa), ODS, TOP 09 and YES have ruled the citizens. The first mentioned group is the only party that remained from the original coalition, which was formed after the elections in 2018 and which next to Čižinský. Originally coalition Prague 1 to itself, Pirates and Green for number one are now in opposition. The current first deputy mayor Petr Hejma (STAN) has become the new mayor. Since the exchange, there have been heated relations between the opposition and the coalition at the town hall.