Fight for Prague: The TOTAL coalition presented the program, it has nine key priorities
On Monday, the SPOLU coalition for Prague, composed of ODS, TOP 09 and KDU-ČSL, presented the election program for the upcoming autumn elections to the capital council. I consist of nine key priorities. These include transport, housing, culture and education.
Political parties and movements are preparing for the upcoming autumn municipal elections. ODS, TOP 09 and KDU-ČSL will join forces again and will go TO the elections in about half of the regional cities, including the main one, TOGETHER. It is a model that has proven itself to the coalition.
“TOGETHER we have come a year and a half in a year. TOGETHER we defeated the populists, got the Communists out of parliament and TOGETHER we are returning the Czech Republic to the political world. “reads the introductory sentences of program statement coalition in the capital.
When compiling the program all three parties bet mainly on the experience of their own municipal politicians. “We have our mayors, deputy mayors and councilors in almost all parts of the city. And in addition to doing a great job there and their neighborhoods are thriving, they are the ones who know very well what is bothering the citizens in Prague and what they would like to change. No other party can need such an experience, “explained the TOTAL leader for Prague Bohuslav Svoboda (ODS).
Nine key priorities in Prague
The coalition program is based on nine key priorities. One of the key bodies of our program is transport, housing affordability, a verifiable urban green maintenance plan, responsible and balanced management and real digitization. However, it is not so much a topic that will be similar for most candidate parties, but an approach to them. Prague needs responsible leadership that will offer Prague residents professional city administration and conceptual solutions and that will act predictably and judiciously. And the TOTAL coalition for Prague is just such a force, “explained Jiří Pospíšil (TOP 09).
The Prague People’s Party is to play the role of social conscience as part of the Prague coalition. “We will push easier life for family and seniors. We will focus on solving the housing crisis and on ecological solutionswhich will not disproportionately burden the inhabitants of Prague. It will not forget the culture and monuments of Prague reflecting the history of our city, “promised Jan Wolf (KDU-ČSL).
Housing as the main theme of this year’s elections
Most of the candidates for housing this year before the election are no excuse Pirateswho your program have already published. “Everyone needs to live, according to us municipal housing can provide facilities for all groups of the population, from disadvantaged families and individuals through middle-income families, the elderly to, for example, the needy. And living must not mean getting into debt, “they say. They would like to keep the current one, ie Zdeněk Hřiba, as the mayor of Prague.
However, the mayor of Prague 7 and the leader also have the ambition to be the head of the city Prague itself Jan Čižinský. “The city is to serve the people of Prague. Great people who live here and want to be proud of their city. We actually want completely ordinary things, but for many years’ just didn’t work.” quick and well-thought-out repairs of the city, investments in practical services for Praguersand not to political monuments, listening to locals, cultivating tourism, reconciling cars, public transport and pedestrian safety, planning and a clear visionwhere our city is going, “he said preference parties.
The leader of the candidate Mayors and Independents (STAN) in Prague, architect Petr Hlaváček will be in the upcoming municipal elections. The party is looking for a way to get rid of its dependence on Russian gas. Projects such as an energy center are being prepared, with the help of which it will be possible to cover about a third of the flats that are heated by district heating. The construction of a biogas plant is also planned.
Movement YES so far the program is still in tune, the regional assembly has approved at least the draft list of candidates. However, it remains vacant so far. The hottest favorite for the head of the movement in the capital is currently MP Patrik Nacher.
CSSD joined forces Green and movement Idealists. The leader of their coalition Solidarity will be former human rights defender Anna Sabatova. “We will try to ensure that no more flats are privatized in Prague, we will try to increase the share of flats in the non-market regime, for this purpose we will also buy flats and the city will support as an investor. candidate for mayor of Prague.
Program of the coalition of ODS and TOP 09 to the Brno City Council (5/2022):
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