Mayor of Prague 1 Terezie Radoměřská – end of privatization, investment in hospital
Past coalition ODS, We who live here (STAN, KDU-ČSL, Citizens’ Initiative), TOP 09 and ANO, according to the mayor, with regard to the end of the election period, she only prepared a basic draft of the budget so that the new management can draw it up according to their ideas. The provisional budget means that the town hall will only be able to use one-twelfth of the previous budget each month. For this year, the town hall has an approved budget with revenues of approximately 825.4 million and they will spend 1.03 crowns of income, the difference is to come from previous years and 130 million from reserve funds.
Higher costs according to the mayor, they are already clear in the case operation of schools and nurseries or Na Františku Hospital, which the city district operates. “There, the increases are quite high, so I managed to do it and she added that the city hall will find the money to calculate the operating costs.
Urgent hospital admission
As for the investment, the mayor mentioned, for example, the building of a new emergency department in the aforementioned hospital. There are no plans for large structures costing tens or tens of millions of crowns, such as underground garages, she added. The money for investments should also come from the reserves that the town hall accumulated in the past, mainly from privatization.
There is a problem with privatizations
According to Radoměřská, the privatization of apartments in Prague 1 has completely ended. In the past, they were interested in selling apartments in the center of the metropolis policy, for example, the court decided in the summer about fines for 30 former representatives and officials for selling lucrative real estate at a lower price than was later determined by an expert opinion. According to earlier statements, some are resisting the decision. The former mayor Oldřich Lomecký (formerly TOP 09) also remains a separate indictment.who, according to the prosecutor’s office, sold a city apartment below cost.
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Oldřich Lomecký, Mayor of Prague 1
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And for that reason, according to the new mayor there is no political will to sell any flats except for potential cases where, for example, a contract has already been signed and the sale cannot avoid legal consequences. “Even if we had the intention to privatize something, it is essentially impossible to build such legally bulletproof rules, and none of the politicians will want to take on such responsibility,” said Radoměřská.
Just privatizations were one of the targets of criticism by the opposition Praha 1 Sobě in the last election period, although the family of the leader of Prague 1 Sobá Pavle Čižínský bought an apartment in the center of Prague with her in the past. Prague 1 She sharply criticized the previous management of the town hall and yet she won this year’s elections, again ending up in the opposition. According to the mayor, the new coalition will try prevent so that it prevails at the meetings of the councils tense atmosphere, as in recent years. For example, she introduced before each council meetings of all clubs, where the coalition representatives will listen to possible objections of the opposition. “I will try very hard to talk to the opposition, and my coalition partners are doing it too, in order to prevent that heated discussion,” said the mayor.
Post-election arrangement
In Prague 1, the coalition of ODS, Pirates, TOP 09, ANO and Residents 1 has been in power since the beginning of November, in the previous period the ODS, We, what we live in (STAN, KDU-ČSL, Citizens’ Initiative), TOP 09 and ANO ruled there. Radoměřská replaced Petr Hejma (STAN), who left to join the opposition.
Oldřich Lomecký, Mayor of Prague 1
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