The SPD and the Tricolor stepped into it. Prague will not like it
7/11/2022 6:21 a.m. | Reportage
REPORT “We want to at least light a small light, rather than keep whining that it’s dark,” raged the renowned doctor, associate professor Tomáš Skrička (SPD) at a press conference for the municipal and senate elections in Brno. In the capital of Moravia, the SPD will run as part of the SPD, Trikolora, Moravians and independent candidates. Their ace in the Senate, lawyer Zdeněk Koudelka (Trikolora), makes no secret of his interest in supporting the “Moravian idea” and enforcing the same conditions for Brno as “rich Prague”.
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“We will all feel a lack of energy. We will all feel the huge price hike. We will all feel, I am afraid, also the lack of food,” warned the leader of the joint candidate associate professor Tomáš Skrička (SPD), a prominent Moravian surgeon, at a press conference in Brno. “The green frenzy and warlike mood in most of Europe is not good for anyone, and especially not good for our citizens,” he added. According to Skrička, the upcoming municipal and senate elections will be “extraordinary”.
He presented solutions, for example, in the field of energy. “We propose to be able to deal directly with the producers. I don’t know why we couldn’t copy Hungary or even Germany, which get gas at prices six times lower than the current Czech Republic,” he pointed out.
The SPD also has fundamental plans in the field of healthcare. According to Skrička, Brno has the largest concentration of doctors and health professionals, but coordination is difficult. “We would like to seat representatives of all healthcare facilities in Brno at one table,” he described. The goal is to bring healthcare to a high European level.
Other theses of the program include the construction of city apartments, the creation of new parking spaces or the strengthening of the security of the city police for a greater feeling of citizens. “To create a sufficient number of city police offices,” she listed other expected measures of the candidate. He admitted that the coalition’s complete election plan is “sweeping”. “We want to at least light a little light instead of whining about how dark it is,” he explained.
In the municipal elections, the SPD in Brno will run as part of the SPD, Trikolora, Moravian and independent candidates. “In Brno, we are running for the council of the statutory city of Brno and in fifteen other city districts. We will have 16 lists of candidates,” explained Lucie Šafránková, SPD deputy for the South Moravian region and chairman of the SPD Brno regional club.
The coalition agrees not only on the issue of “covidism”
The creation of a coalition is the result of a consensus of ideological focus. “This is not a random individuality. For example, at the time of covid, both the SPD and Trikolora spoke out against the excessive closure of the economy, against discrimination against unvaccinated citizens and against what I would call an incorrect response to covid, which today is reflected in ever-increasing inflation,” described coalition senate candidate associate professor Zdeněk Koudelka, lawyer and university a teacher who is the chairman of the municipal organization Trikolory Brno. “It is not only a question of covidism, but also a question of accepting or not accepting the euro, the relationship of strengthening Brussels centralism within the European Union. The Tricolor and the SPD have a common ideological basis and it is right to cooperate in the elections,” he added.
As for the Moravian party, Koudelka personally and the Brno Trikolora have been supporting the Moravian idea for a long time. “We recognize the Moravian nationality, we support the use of the Moravian coat of arms and flag, including their enactment, and the marking of Moravian borders on the roads, so cooperation with the Moravian party is natural,” he described.
Lawyer Zdeněk Koudelka at a press conference in Brno. Photo: Daniela Černá
During the press conference, Associate Professor Koudelka clearly defined himself also with regard to the current funding of certain organizations. “There is a significant part of institutions in Brno that have supra-regional, essentially provincial importance, but unfortunately they are financed differently than their partner organizations in Prague. I remember, for example, the Brno Philharmonic. While the Czech Philharmonic in Prague is financed from the state budget, as it is established by the Ministry of Culture, the Brno Philharmonic is financed from the city budget with a certain contribution from the region and the state. It is right that Brno should not pay for the fact that it has to pay from its municipal budget for things that rich Prague does not pay for in Prague, but the state does,” he says clearly.
“I agree with Tomio Okamura that not only the municipal but also the senate elections can become a referendum on the government in September,” Koudelka also said.
Kotas: I do not agree with limiting freedom of speech
For the Moravians, historian, university teacher, associate professor Jiří Pernes appears on the joint candidate list. “We are concerned with the rehabilitation of self-governing autonomous Moravia within the Czech state, which would continue the thousand-year tradition of independent Moravia,” described Pernes.
Academic architect Tomáš Kotas (SPD) is also running for the Senate. “I don’t agree with restricting freedom of speech. I clearly say no to illegal migration,” he listed the points of the program on which he would like to rely in case of election. Among the basic theses of the SPD are, for example, the preservation of the national currency, adequate and dignified pensions, affordable healthcare, traditional education without ideology, the end of executor mafias, and support for agriculture towards food self-sufficiency.
Photogallery: – SPD, Tricolor, Moravians
The coalition is planning a contact campaign, i.e. mainly meetings with citizens and the placement of petition stands with petitions against price increases. Pre-election promotion will include billboards and advertising on public transport. “In total, we will put around 20 million crowns into the campaign for the SPD. Within the framework of our association here in Brno, it will be around half a million crowns,” noted Šafránková.
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author: Daniela Black