Prime Minister Fiala: This year will be one of the most difficult in the history of the Czech Republic
Prague – According to Prime Minister Petr Fiala (ODS), this year will be one of the most difficult and difficult since the establishment of the independent Czech Republic. It will have to deal with the difficulties caused by inflation, rising energy prices are an epidemic of covid-19. According to him, it will take a long time to solve them. He hopes that the first positive results will come before the end of the year. He warned against political populists who would promise a simple solution. As an opportunity to promote what the Czechia needs in life, Fiala sees the Czech Presidency of the European Union, when the country will see and hear more. Fiala said so in her New Year’s speech today.
He also commented on covid-19. “I have long believed that it is necessary to learn to live with a covid,” he said. Which, according to him, requires commitment from the government and citizens. “On behalf of the government, I can promise you that we will try to ensure that all necessary measures are as reasonable, proportionate and predictable as possible,” he said. She encouraged people to treat each other the way they treated family and friends.
At the beginning of the speech, Fiala remarked that he did not have much good news for the listeners. “This year will probably be one of the most difficult and difficult since the establishment of the independent Czech Republic,” he said. According to him, the Czechia will be bothered by problems that come from abroad, as well as problems that the republic has caused itself. “Mainly because the previous government paid little attention to our future and literally lived from day to day,” he said. He criticized the government of Andrej Babiš (ANO) for solving new energy sources or for indebtedness.
The three serious dangers that the Czechia will face this year were the rise in energy prices, covid-19 and inflation, which in a short time may endanger not only savings but also jobs and halt economic growth. According to him, solving problems will take a long time, but they cannot be postponed. Fiala will be happy when the first positive results of the government’s work show at the end of the year.
He also recalled the deficit budget prepared by the previous government. “These days, we are trying to cut it at least to a tolerable level to show that we are serious about dealing with inflation,” he said. They want to look for savings where citizens do not feel it. According to him, the reduction will only benefit the redundant state.
He recalled the view of some economists that inflation could not be controlled until energy prices were controlled. But according to him, this also requires an international solution. “On the one hand, there is Russia, which is trying to blackmail Europe and even shows that it is ready for armed conflict, and on the other hand, we have major European states that have decided to invest in fossil fuel independence, almost at any cost, “said the prime minister.
He also warned against “political saviors and populists”, they will offer a simple solution. “That it’s enough to reject something or come out from somewhere. It’s not true. Complex problems never have an easy solution,” he said. Fiala described the patient’s patient and hard work, the search for allies in Europe, progress in the construction of nuclear power units and the promotion of investment in sensible renewables as a way out of the energy crisis. He promised to help those affected by rising energy prices.
This could say the premiere of the Czech Presidency of the EU in the second half of the year. “In a few months we will hear more and see more and our opinion will carry more weight,” he said. He accused the previous government of not doing enough to prepare him.
According to coalition leaders, Fiala was able to describe the country’s main problems
In his first New Year’s speech in office, Prime Minister Fiala was able to describe the country’s main problems and outline solutions. The chairmen of the coalition parties agreed on this in response to questions from the Czech News Agency. He evaluates Fial’s speech as factual and state-owned. In his speech, Fiala warned, among other things, that this year will be one of the most difficult and difficult since the establishment of the independent Czech Republic.
“The Prime Minister clearly described the current main problems of our country about the principles of the solution, he did not paint in pink,” the social KDU-ČSL and the Minister of Labor and Affairs Marian Jurečka told ČTK. He described the project as concrete and factual. The Minister of the Interior and Chairman of the Mayors and Vít Vítušan described the speech as a speech by a statesman. “Uncrypted, content-wise, emphatic, appealing to unity and personal responsibility. At the same time, a factual description of today’s biggest problems. After years of ballast, remorse, praise and marketing proclamations without real content, a pleasant change,” he told CTK.
“I am glad that the Czech Republic has a Prime Minister in the person of Petr Fiala, who is polite, factual and is not afraid to name problems, but at the same time to present concrete solutions,” she wrote on twitter Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies and TOP 09 Markéta Pekarová Adamová.
“We fully agree with the Prime Minister that we finally need to talk openly with the people about our country’s problems. And that the new government must have the absolute priority of minimizing the impact on citizens. Not only immediate forms of aid but also long-term solution and further subdivision of the company, “said the Chairman of the Pirates and Minister for Regional Development Ivan Bartoš. The Vice-Chairman of the Pirates Radek Holomčík wrote Fial’s speech for Czech Television as realistic.
“For me, it was really a speech that I wanted to hear as a citizen,” Petr Gazdík, vice-chairman of the STAN and the Ministry of Education, told Czech Television. He described the speech as realistic, unifying, which set the vision. According to him, the premiere named the most fundamental topics that bother citizens.
For Schiller, Fial’s speech was a disappointment, according to Okamura, it did not offer a solution
Former Minister of Finance and current chairwoman of the ANO parliamentary group Alena Schillerová called today’s New Year’s speech by Prime Minister Fiala a huge disappointment. She expected the prime minister to unite the company, but instead he felt that the election campaign was continuing. SPD opposition leader Tomio Okamura said Fiala was superficial and had no concrete solution. They both told Czech Television in response to Fial’s first New Year’s speech in his prime minister.
“A huge disappointment for me. I was just expecting Prime Minister Fiala for what I weigh in the beginning when he became Prime Minister, that there will be a company, that he will vote for the five-party coalition even for those who did not vote for the five-party coalition today, as if the campaign continued, “She would have said she would want to run for two years, according to the ex-minister. that is, they have touched the salaries of many of the most needy, “she said. She cited employees of regional hygienic stations or labor offices as an example.
“According to the long-term SPD, Petr Fiala correctly named the problems that currently bother the citizens of the Czech Republic the most. Firstly, it is inflation, secondly, the rise in energy prices and thirdly, the situation around the lead. “He even showed a fatal illusion that he saw a solution to rising energy prices in the Czech presidency of the European Union,” President Okamura told ČTK.
Czech Television Okamura said that Fiala was quite superficial in her speech. He disappointed him because he offered no concrete solution. Okamura reiterated that the solution was to reject the Green Agreement and withdraw from the EU’s emissions trading scheme.