Representatives of the Together and Pirates coalition will meet again in Prague
Update: 18/10/2022 00:47
Issued by: 18/10/2022, 00:47
Prague – Representatives of the Together coalition (ODS, TOP 09, KDU-ČSL) and Pirates will meet again in Prague today to discuss a possible Prague coalition. The meeting will be held at 16:00 in the ODS club in the Chamber of Deputies. The parties last met last Monday, negotiations complicated by a pirate demand that they not sit on the council with criminally prosecuted politicians.
The together and Pirates negotiating teams will meet several times since the municipal elections. After previous meetings, representatives of Spolu stated that they still preferred the Prague coalition with the Pirates and STAN on the government’s plan, but at the same time they repeatedly rejected the Pirates’ demand regarding criminally prosecuted politicians. This would concern Jan Wolf (KDU-ČSL), whom Spolu is counting on as a councilor and who is facing indictment in the case of municipal sports subsidies. At the same time, the Prime Minister and Chairman of the ODS, Petr Fiala, repeated on Monday during a visit to the Security Information Service (BIS) that he recommends and prefers an agreement in cities and municipalities that copies the form of the government coalition, which consists of the ODS, KDU-ČSL, TOP 09, Pirates and STAN.
This year’s municipal elections in Prague were won by the Spolu coalition, which won 19 mandates in the 65-member council. 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.