Will there be a coalition in Prague? Fiala sent a signal
At the moment, it seems that we will have a new president elected sooner than a new mayor of Prague and a new council. And the second round of the presidential elections will be at the end of January 2023, while the municipal elections took place in September 2022. Prime Minister Petr Fiala and head of the ODS Petr Fiala believes that the Pirates are not really interested in real negotiations.
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Until negotiations on a coalition at the City Hall. Prime Minister Petr Fiala (ODS) has already intervened in the city of Prague. Since the elections that took place in September 2022, it has not been possible to form a new functional City Council that would govern Prague and bear political responsibility for city administration.
“In the coming days, it will become clear whether the Pirates under the leadership of Dr. (Zdenek) Hřib are really interested in forming a government, or whether they have another interest,” said Fiala. He indicated that, in his opinion, the Prague Pirates do not want to come to an agreement.
“Pražská Spolu has been ready for compromises and agreements from the beginning. She accepted the personnel demands and has now relented on the fact that she will not have a majority in the council, even though she won the election. But you need partners for a deal,” said Fiala for Novinky.cz.
The dispute is about whether a representative of the Prague Self movement should also appear in the City Council, or whether the Council will be made up only of representatives of SPOLU, the Pirates and the STAN movement.
SPOLU leader Bohuslav Svoboda (ODS) is skeptical about Prague’s involvement in the Council.
“Of course, the more members the coalition has, the more problems there are, because opinions have to be refined, argued, negotiated,” Svoboda argued on Czech television.
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Svoboda stated for the E15.cz serverthat TOGETHER is all about reaching an agreement in Prague.
“In order for the government to give up the formation of the coalition to us, we are mostly in the council, the position of the investment square, and we offered our coalition partners the gestures that we ourselves wanted,” said Svoboda. “We want to go to the municipality because we want the leadership to lose its position, but so that the city leadership will finally start functioning and the council will no longer rule without a mandate from the voters,” he added.
The mayors welcomed the offers. “This distribution of power, as fair to everyone, corresponds to the balance of power in the council, and we proposed it from the beginning as a variant for the coalition on the government plan,” said Petr Hlaváček for STAN, who should once again be in charge of territorial development.
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