The organizers of the Prague protest, who describe themselves as non-political citizens, demand, among other things, to secure contracts with Russia for the supply of gas at low prices. They demand the resignation of the government and withdrawal from NATO, the EU, the United Nations and the World Health Organization (WHO) and refuse to accept the euro.

Among other demands are food independence of the country, voluntary vaccination, “liberation” of the industry from “dependence” on foreign companies.

Speakers from Germany’s AfD

One of the speakers was also Christine Anderson, an MEP from Germany’s far-right AfD. “In her speech, she said that the Czechia also has experience with tyranny. She was talking about the time before 1989, when the Czechia was under the rule of the Soviet Union, and added that it got out of it,” CT editor Tereza Trnková reported from the scene.

“However, it must be said that it was a speech in English, then the organizers translated it into Czech, and the translation was, let’s say, very loose. The ideas were not completely followed as Christine Andersonová said them, and in some examples the sentences were completely different,” explains Trnková.

German AfD MP Petr Bystroň also spoke. According to him, the populists are fighting for the people against the globalists, namely for “family, God, homeland and our freedom”. He and other speakers supported former US President Donald Trump.

The organizers called on Czech MPs to resign from their parties, keep their mandate and work as independents “directly for the Czech nation”.

The event on Wenceslas Square is supervised by the police. She said on Twitter that she estimated “in the low tens of thousands” of participants to have arrived in the center of the metropolis.

Protests in other cities

Participants in the Brno protest brought Czech and Moravian flags. Banners with inscriptions such as “Fialo, that’s enough, you are warmongers” or “What are you crazy, there are people here” were also seen. Thanks to the video transmission, the protestors set about the events and speeches on Wenceslas Square, whistling and chanting “resignation, resignation” could be heard.

The broadcast was also on Pilsen’s central Republic Square. According to the police estimate, hundreds of people gathered there. In addition to the Czech flags, they also held the SPD or KSČM flags. Opponents of Petr Fiala’s cabinet also gathered in Olomouc and České Budějovice.