Post-election crisis: Politicians prick each other. Hlaváček from STAN: Prague leads YES, it resembles a protectorate!
She provoked in addition to this, the situation arose when there was practically hopeless anarchy in Prague. Although a senior council composed of representatives of the Pirates still “rules” in the capital, today the United Forces for Prague (TOP 09, STAN and KDU-ČSL) and Prague itself no longer exist. However, the serving deputy does not mind that their decision is “hated” by opposition politicians from ANOwho occupied key positions in representative committees.
Protectorate in Prague?
“YES, they practically run Prague! Due to protracted negotiations, the Prague council is under the dictates of the control committee of scientist Ondřej Prokop from the ANO team. No decision can take place without his condescending instruction,” the otherwise calm and tolerant Hlaváček sighed already on social networks. “Radek Nepil, also from the ANO team, manages the spatial plan. Politically, I suspect this system is called a protectorate, but in practice it is paralysis.”
At the same time, the opposition has in the past spoken out in favor of the outgoing council not making any major political decisions. It seems that the politicians from ANO have succeeded. “Prague has a lot urgent tasks, no project in transport, education, housing, energy or security must be stopped, even with regard to the situation in Ukraine,” warns Hlaváček.
ANO representatives did not like his words. “Using words like ‘protectorate’ is seriously political disgrace level power a dark period in our history,” responded representative Radomír Nepil (ANO), who, among other things, is the deputy mayor of Prague 8. “The representative voted that prints to the city council will first be discussed in the control committee because at the last minute you started behaving like a tiger in the flesh. You approved expenses in the order of billions, for which you no longer had a mandate,” Nepil told Hlaváček that he was right about blocking the council’s decision.
YES, they practically run Prague!
STAN therefore calls for negotiations on the plan TOGETHER-Pirates-STAN.
Due to protracted negotiations, the Prague council is under the dictates of the control committee of scientist Ondřej Prokop from the ANO team. No decision can take place without his condescending direction. 🧵 1/6— Petr Hlavaček (@Hlavacek_P) November 21, 2022
Back to the negotiating table
Hlaváček once again called on the representatives of SPOL (ODS, TOP 09 and KDU-ČSL) and the Pirates to negotiations on a new coalition. They still stick. While SPOLU prefers the creation of a government-style coalition consisting of SPOLU, the Pirates and STAN, the Pirates also want to invite Prague into it as part of the post-election coalition of the Stability Alliance. Which it seems blocks the formation of a coalition – and Hlaváček is also aware of this.
“The rivalry between SPOLU and the Pirates is delaying the resolution of key issues. If both parties do not back down from their demands, we will have another long months of presidential campaign, when ANO will rule in Prague. Again inwe call for tripartite negotiations at the level of club leaders and presidents,” Hlaváček called on his colleagues, saying that he is proposing the distribution of seats in the Council: 5 for TOGETHER, 4 for Pirates, 2 for STAN. He did not include Prague in his proposal.
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That’s why the representatives of TOGETHER are asking primarily as appeal to the Pirates, serving mayor Zdeněk Hřib (Pirates), however, does not think so. “Pirates are not hindering the formation of a new government in Prague. We received the last and at the same time the only offer from SPOLU on 22 October, i.e. more than three weeks ago, and therefore at a time when Prague and I already presented ourselves as the Alliance of Stability. Since then they refuse to meet us,” he told reporters on Tuesday.
That he is not quite right is indicated by several meetings, in which representatives of the Pirates also participate. Last Friday at the latest. “We offer the government’s floor plan, we are still trying to present some variants of the future arrangement. It is complex negotiationsbecause I negotiate for Spolu, Mrs. Kateřina Arnotová for STAN, but colleague Daniel Mazur (Pirates) represents the entire Alliance. So, in most cases, he will listen to our suggestions that we give for the arrangement on the government floor plan, but he has no mandate to respond to it,” said Zdeněk Zajíček, chairman of the representative club of the ODS, at the meeting on the future management of the city on Friday.
“For more than 14 days, the presidents of the clubs SPOLU, Piráti and STAN have been meeting regularly and trying to find a way out from the stalemate when the Pirates are part of the Alliance and we don’t need to supplement separately,” added Zajíček for Blesk.
“We will welcome if Petr Hlaváček finds a way to convince the Pirates to act independently on the conclusion of a coalition on the government’s plan, which is also achievable in Prague. We have never rejected any negotiations in this direction,” he said, adding that he hoped for an agreement as soon as possible. However, Hřib’s statement does not support this very much. “They do not develop the activity to create a coalition, which they should develop,” rated the winner of the election that happened TOGETHER.