Pirates and Prague offers itself the creation of a coalition of democratic entities. TOGETHER should have the position of mayor
Leaders of the Prague coalition. From left Jan Čižinský (Prague Self), Jiří Pospíšil (United Forces for Prague) and Mayor Zdeněk Hřib (Pirates) | PHOTO: FB ČT Prague and Central Bohemia
According to offers The Alliance of Stability, formed by Pirates and Praha Sobě, together with the STAN movement, would have 5 members in the 11-member Prague City Council. The Pirates with the Praha Sobě movement would have one more member. According to the proposal, the position of mayor would be filled by TOGETHER.
“Please accept our offer for immediate democratic negotiations on the creation of a long-term stable coalition of parties in the Prague municipality for the entire election period.
We are ready to negotiate with you immediately and without delay on proportionally balanced and the will of the voters
appropriate representation in the Prague City Council and other bodies,” writes the Stability Alliance in a statement posted on the social network twitter shared the current mayor of the capital Zdeněk Hřib (Pirates).
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The coalition TOGETHER for Prague with the STAN movement has 24 seats in the city council. The Stability Alliance parties have the same number. “We respect the claim of the TOGETHER coalition to the position of mayor. By law, the council has an odd number of 11 members. A balanced arrangement is
that is, to divide this number into 5 members of the Council, including the mayor for the coalition TOGETHER for Prague and the STAN movement and 6 members of the Council for the parties of the Stability Alliance,” the statement reads.
According to the Pirates and Prague, the Mayor has the right of veto, so it is impossible for anything to pass that TOGETHER for Prague or the Mayors do not agree with. It is said that the division of responsibility and power will lead to maximum efforts to reach an agreement.
Together, since the beginning of the post-election negotiations, he has been promoting the establishment of a coalition on the ground plan of the government one, i.e. with the Pirates and STAN. They reject Prague’s participation in the coalition, even though they once negotiated with it, including the so-called program teams. At the same time, Spolu representatives said that the door to the coalition remains open for the Pirates, should they decide to withdraw from the alliance.
After this year’s municipal elections in Prague, the Spolu coalition won 19 mandates in the 65-member council. ANO ended second with 14 mandates. The third Pirates have 13 representatives. Čtvrtá Praha Sobě has 11 mandates, five representatives have STAN in fifth place. Sixth is the SPD movement with three mandates.