Pavel Vyhnánek (Prague sebo): Boris Šťastný from the ODS pulled Trussová against the steamer
photo: Vít Hassan for PrahaIN.cz/Pavel Vyhnánek
POLITICIANS IN THEIR OWN WORDS Member of the council m of Prague and Prague 7 for Prague on their Facebook on October 21 for the resignation of British Prime Minister Truss
The resignation of British Prime Minister Truss after 45 days in office cannot surprise any veteran of the political wars for the Prague municipality in the slightest. The local record in the sprint to resignation is much more impressive. It is held by Boris Šťastný from the ODS, who in 2010 resigned as councilor less than one day after being elected to the council. How did he achieve this respectable feat?
We must start with the Act on ch. m in Prague, which sets the number of council members at exactly eleven. This is interesting in itself, because this is not the case in other Czech municipalities. This is not the case even in Prague’s city districts. If a municipality or a city district has a council, then the number of its members ranges from five to eleven, while the number of councilors may not be higher than a third of the representatives. But Prague is, in short, Prague and has its own law that specifies the exact number of councilors.
The same law, however, says in another paragraph that the number of councilors m of Prague must not fall below six. In other words, there must be exactly eleven councilors and at the same time there must not be less than six of them. That’s what I call a mathematical puzzle as hard as a Prague cobblestone! How to crack it? After Prague!
Board members may resign. They can be revoked. And they are allowed to die too. Then their number can logically be reduced below eleven in accordance with the law. But not under six! But in order for councilors to resign, be recalled or die, they must first be elected. That makes sense. It is therefore generally believed that the number of councilors can drop to six during the election period, but must reach exactly eleven when a new council is elected. Otherwise, there is a risk that the election would be invalid and the previous council would continue to rule.
So what happened to the unfortunate Boris Šťastny? In 2010, TOP 09 won the elections. However, the then political godfathers Hrdliček and Hulinský decided that the second ODS and the third ČSSD would make up the majority, under the leadership of Mayor Svoboda. But they were unable to agree on who would have the majority in the eleven-member councils. You because the eleventh member of the council will be Boris Šťastný, who will resign immediately after his election, so that the distribution was five to five, he did not have most of the time and at the same time the law was observed.
Brilliant, isn’t it? Realize that politics is a craft. And there are artisans running around Prague with such golden hands that one can only dream of them somewhere in London. Who knows, maybe we’ll find out about it again before too long!