Pirates have been leading Prague for three years: What they did and what they didn’t
The Prague coalition, led by Pirates and Mayor Zdeněk Hřib, has been sitting at the municipality for over three years. Despite this, many of their election promises remain unfulfilled. Praguers are mainly bothered by inaccessible housing and ill-considered traffic closures.
Transport
Probably the most political points Pirates cost traffic closures. The last time last autumn, Prague was dug up in all directions. “There was a collapse here. In the end, both the co-parties and the coalition partners really blamed the mayor. Horoscopes that it ruined their parliamentary elections,” added Hospodářské noviny commentator Michaela Ryšavá.
“I think that the people of Prague expected from this coalition that it would move more with Prague’s traffic,” said Jiří Pospíšil (TOP 09), a representative of the United Forces for Prague coalition. “So, of course, traffic constructions can probably be coordinated better, that’s true. If we want to keep the road in order, we need to repair it once in a while,” explained Viktor Mahrik, chairman of the Prague Pirates’ Club.
Apartments and construction
When the Pirates entered the municipality, they promised a fundamental change in housing policy. They wanted to fight mainly with empty flats and short-term private accommodation. “We expected the municipality to take such steps to legislatively limit this type of accommodation. This was from our point of view on the border of the law. It has not succeeded yet,” commented Tomáš Oliva on behalf of the Association of Citizens and Friends of Malá Strana and Hradčany.
“We are concentrating a lot on the city to start preparing new urban housing projects. We are repairing city flats at a record pace, we are occupying, we are reducing the number of empty flats in the city administration. Prague Councilor for Housing Adam Zábranský (Pirates).
The municipality lags behind in terms of large investments, but has managed to manage a number of smaller ones. “Construction of a new footbridge in Troja, now Holešovice and Karlín are to be connected, a new project for the repair of the Libeň bridge, the start of the construction of metro D,” Ryšavá said.
“It is a great disappointment that Prague is not changing a modern European city, it counts. If the greater technological expansion of the city is the expansion of the Internet in the subway,” said political scientist Lukáš Jelínek.
Political cases
“The decent result of the Pirates in Prague is that there is no talk of any serious corruption or clientelistic cases,” added political scientist Jelínek.
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