An hour before the start of the demonstration, hundreds of opponents of the government gathered in Prague – LIVE
Update: 28/10/2022 13:27
Issued by: 28/10/2022, 13:21
Prague – An hour before the start of the demonstration, the first hundreds of opponents of the government gathered on Wenceslas Square in Prague. Other people with Czech flags came from public transport stops and the train station, gathered in front of the attic in the upper part of the square. The organizers have convened the third such gathering since the beginning of September. According to police estimates, there were roughly 70,000 participants at the first, while tens of thousands less at the second end of September.
The organizer of Ladislav, who, according to media information, is in the line of execs, already started before the Government’s event, when the governments from the stage are opponents of the event. “We can easily bring the crowd from Wenceslas Square to Letná on November 17. But I’m afraid that the political parties linked to the current elite would then appropriate it,” he said. He named the SPD, the Tricolor or the Chcíp PES movement.
The organizers of the demonstration called Nonviolent Revolution – Czech Republic in 1st place disagree with the current government policy and want change. From the podium at the previous two gatherings, speakers mainly criticized high energy prices, the pro-Western course of the current government and its support for Ukraine. Among others, three presidential candidates are scheduled to present themselves today, MEP Hynek Blaško, who ended up in the SPD, immunologist Jaroslav Turánek and KSČM candidate Josef Skála.
The participants of the protest in mid-October handed over to the officials at Prague Castle a petition with domestic goals to dismiss the government. According to them, it was signed by over 30,000 people at the time. But according to constitutional lawyers, the president does not have the power to dismiss the cabinet based on his own decision. In response, President Miloš Zeman stated that he would have to be a dictator to dismiss the government. “You don’t even know that I would ever want to do what you suggest, but I would repeal the law,” he said during a visit to Děčín last week.