Even your family bought apartments from the city, Cizinski’s opposition criticizes
The current composition of the municipality’s leadership, led by the Pirates, is mostly opposed to the further sale of city apartments – privatization has already “definitely” blown the whistle. Opposition politicians from the ANO and ODS movements continue to support the transfer of a selected part of the housing stock into private hands, the server reminded List of Messageswho drew attention to the attacks on Čižinski.
The opposition points out that among the current opponents of the sale of apartments are also politicians who in the past profited from the transfer to personal ownership.
Jan ČižinskýTeacher, between 2017 and 2021 he was a member of parliament elected for the KDU-ČSL. Since 2014, he has been a representative of the Capital City of Prague for the group Praha Sobě. He has been the mayor of Prague 7 since November 2014. |
“It’s hypocritical behavior,” said Alexandra Udženija, mayor of Prague 2 and member of the ODS executive board, number six on the election candidate list of the Together for Prague coalition, addressing Čižinský.
Čižínský’s extended family bought two apartments from the city in the past, but the municipal politician from the group Praha Sobě argues that he himself had no part in it.
“It would be hypocritical if I did it, if it concerned me. I am not responsible for my parents and uncle,” said the Prague politician, adding that he was still a student at the time the aforementioned privatization was discovered and had no influence on the entire process.
In 2003, Čižínský’s parents bought an apartment with an area of 103 square meters in the historic center, on the corner of Maiselová and Pařížská streets, from the city for 409,000 crowns. Today, the apartment is owned by the politician’s mother.
The second apartment is 58 m2, is in Holešovice. The price during privatization in 2007 according to the contract was 371 thousand crowns. The buyer of this apartment was Čižínský’s uncle, who donated it politically to his mother (his sister) in 2016, Seznam Zprávy reported.
The server asked for an expert opinion from real estate broker Miroslav Heliman from the Prague office of Heliman Reality, and he estimated the current market price of the first apartment at 21.2 million crowns, according to the development of the price level in the locality, and at 6.6 million for the second one.
Jan Čižinský emphatically rejects words from opposition circles about privatization hypocrisy. “I consider running a political campaign by defaming my parents and my relatives to be a political bottom. I, my wife and my children have never privatized any apartment and we will not,” Čižinsky defends himself by saying that he is only responsible for his immediate family.
At the same time, the sale years ago was completely transparent, it concerned entire houses, not individual apartments. According to his explanation, his parents and uncle bought the apartments after they had lived in them for about 30 years. According to him, it was no patronage.
In this context, Čižinský also recalls the earlier controversial sales of apartments in his home district of Prague 7, where, under strange circumstances, apartments were acquired by the children of some councilors and representatives, as in 2013 in a report for Čižinský’s comments TV Nova described.
Jan Čižinský is still convinced that the mass sale of apartments, which has been confirmed in the metropolis in the past, was wrong and he does not want to continue it as a politician.
“We ended the privatization here at number seven. And we ended it at the municipality. At the moment, there is no reason to continue privatization, on the contrary, city apartments need to be built anew. And it increases the percentage of apartments that Prague has at its disposal, Prague is not even able to help people in need, because today it cannot influence the price of rental housing in any way,” points out Čižinský.
The current opposition wants to continue the sale of a selected part of the housing stock. And that where the sale has already been promised to the tenants.
“We are in favor of completing the ongoing projects and not changing the rules in the middle of the game. We don’t want to scare people. But at the same time, we don’t want new privatization,” said the electoral leader of the ANO movement, Patrik Nacher.
Similar words are also used by ODS. “It is unfair if they made a promise to the politician – the tenants prepared for the sale in good faith, for example sold their cottages and cottages in order to meet the conditions – and then this promise was not kept,” says Alexandra Udženija from the ODS, already quoted, regarding the sale of municipal apartments. However, she adds that sales are no longer expected in “her” district of Prague 2.