Trikolora Prague: The pressure of the leaders of the government coalition on the municipality
photo: Hans Štembera for PrahaIN.cz/Václav Musílek, Chairman of the Prague Tricolor Regional Organization
POLITICIANS IN THEIR OWN WORDS Statement by the Trikolory Prague regional organization on the situation in the Prague City Council
Prague, as the only city in the Czech Republic, is not even 80 days after the elections clear about who will manage it in the next four years. The main cause of this state of affairs is the leaders of the government coalition, who adamantly push for the next Prague council to be based on the same ground plan as the cabinet itself. The pressure they exert on their elected representative in the capital led to the blocking of negotiations and the fact that important matters for the residents of Prague are still being decided by the Council, which no longer has a mandate to do so. The interest of the citizens of Prague in quality city administration is sacrificed to the persistent effort to prove that the government coalition works, even if the results of its work are assessed by a significant part of the citizens as a disaster. Mass participation in various demonstrations is a clear proof of this.
Trikolora Praha encourages all political entities in the Capital City Council to act on behalf of the people of Prague and to find such an arrangement that will be able to overcome the coming years, which will certainly be difficult in many ways. It is clear from experience that it cannot be the coalition that has served, which rather brought chaos, complications (not only traffic) to the city and caused Prague serious financial problems. Unfortunately, negotiations are currently dominated by personal animosity, hostility, arrogance, ostracization of opponents, manipulation from outside.
Trikolora Prague emphatically rejects the exclusion of opinion opponents from the discussion about the future form of the Prague government, as is happening in the case of the SPD in the Capital City Council, and as was also the case with Trikolora during negotiations in the city districts. The labels of populism and extremism, with which our opponents, especially from the government coalition of five, so abundantly argue our views, serve only to justify the inexcusable, i.e. resignation to the observance of democratic principles. The Tricolor, like the SPD, respects the constitution and laws, defends the political system of parliamentary democracy, state sovereignty and freedom of speech. It is questionable whether the same can be said about all political entities that are hostile to the SPD and the Tricolor.
We understand the persistent ostracism of these two political groups as an insult to the voters who voted for the SPD and Tricolor coalition in the last elections. There were thousands of them in Prague and hundreds of thousands throughout the Czech Republic, which was reflected in the clearly highest increase in elected representatives from all candidate parties and movements. Even our voters deserve to have adequate representation in decision-making, that is, if we are still in a democratic society and do not want to play with totalitarian tendencies.
For KO Trikolora Prague:
JUDr. became the chairman of the board of directors. Václav Musílek
chairman of KO Trikolora Prague
BC. Martin Gebauer
1st vice-chairman of KO Trikolora Prague