Jan Čižinský (Prague sebo): Who will open the way for the return of Andrej Babiš?
photo: Jakub Mračno, PrahaIN.cz/Jan Čižinský, mayor of Prague 7 and leader of the Prague to itself movement.
POLITICS IN OWN WORDS Mayor of Prague 7, member of the municipal council m of Prague for Prague on their Facebook on September 21 to post-election coalitions
I thought for a long time how to write it correctly. How to express the seriousness of the situation. Two elections await us in the next six months – municipal and senate already on Friday and Saturday, presidential in January. The significantly strengthening ANO will no doubt field its own candidate in these presidential elections. It hasn’t been introduced yet, but one is campaigning extra diligently. Andrej Babiš. The Prague municipal elections will be for his chances. If ANO comes to power in Prague, it will also give Babiš a path to the power of the presidency.
In Prague, ANO will form a coalition only with only democratic parties. Of the parties that have a chance to become mayor, only PRAGUE SOBÓ clearly declared from the beginning that we will not enter into a coalition with ANO. A few days ago, Petr Hlaváček, candidate for mayor for STAN, also volunteered. The pirates didn’t make it clear, but I sure hope they wouldn’t either. On the contrary, the Prague ODS, going to the elections together with TOP 09 and KDU-ČSL, has been voting in unison with ANO in the opposition for the last four years, they highlight program agreement and their people praise each other and cover each other’s backs in the campaign. Here, for example, Patrik Nacher defends Bohuslav Svoboda in a debate (see here). After all, it’s a matter of habit, the ODS with the support of ANO rule in Prague 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 11, 13, 14, 15, 18, 20, 21. In Dvojka, it is even directly the ODS of Bohuslav Svoboda and Alexandra Udženije.
If one of the democratic parties takes ANO in Prague to lead the municipality, it legitimizes it. YES is and will continue to be the property of one man who makes absolute decisions in it. An example is that Babiš’s gray eminence, stbačka Radmila Kleslová, is running again in Prague.
Prague is a symbol of Czech politics. When someone here cooperates with ANO, they are saying that it is a normal political party and Andrej Babiš is a normal politician. Then it won’t even help to plaster the republic with posters that Babiš is a security threat.
That’s why I’m asking you more than ever again in the elections, who exactly do you support directly and indirectly with your vote. Ask your candidates if they accept or unequivocally rule out a coalition with YES.
The elections will be this Friday and Saturday. Let’s keep our fingers crossed that it goes well.
Sincerely and gratefully
Jan Čižinský