Election 2022 | Post-election meeting Prague: STAN met together
The Together for Prague coalition won this year’s municipal elections in Prague and won 19 mandates in the council, which has 65 members. ANO ended second with 14 mandates. The third Pirates will have 13 representatives. Čtvrtá Praha Sobě has 11 mandates, five representatives will have STAN in fifth place.
Sixth is the SPD with three mandates. Spolu representatives have said since the announcement of the election results last Saturday that they want to negotiate a coalition on the ground plan of the government, i.e. with STAN and the Pirates. “Today (Thursday, editor’s note) we thought so we are interested in negotiating a joint coalition. We also discussed some program authorities. For us, it is still a priority to create a coalition on a national scale,” said Wolf.
The two negotiating parties also discussed the next step in the post-election negotiations today. “We briefed each other on the next steps and communicated who we would be meeting with, which they (STAN) did as well. We agreed that we would inform each other about the negotiations,” said Zajíček.
On Monday, Spolu will meet the Pirates for the second time. “We will go there again with the fact that we do not have any specific conditions for the formation of a coalition,” said the Bunny. They have not yet agreed on the exact dates of the meetings with other entities that have made it to the Prague council, i.e. Praha Sobě, the ANO movement or the SPD. According to Zajíček, it is not yet possible to say when a new coalition at the municipality could be formed. According to him, the parties do not want to put pressure on the negotiations by saying it. “It’s about the quality of the new coalition, not the speed of its formation,” he said.
Further negotiations will also be led by STAN. According to the deputy mayor and leader Petr Hlaváček, next week they are going with the Pirates, but also with Prague Sobě. “We welcome negotiations with all democratic parties,” he said. According to him, STAN does not want to negotiate with the ANO and SPD movements.
In addition to the above-mentioned meetings together with STAN and the Pirates, representatives of Prague Sobě, the Pirates and the STAN movement met for the first time in the post-election negotiations on the Sunday after the elections. No agreement was reached at the meeting. Together and the Pirates met for the first time on Monday.