The ODS’s latest attempt to overthrow Babiš’s government is legitimate and understandable. Opposition leader Petr Fiala decided to take such a step on Monday night after Monday’s government press conference. “The Prime Minister has lost the ability to run the government and our country. It is unacceptable for the country to be led further by the Prime Minister, who is personally responsible for the current state of despair and obviously does not know how to get our country out of it, “Fiala explained why he wanted to start negotiations on a vote of no confidence in the government.
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Andrej Babiš loses the trust and respect of the public every day. His clumsy communication style is becoming a burden now, in times of crisis, because he cannot explain what and why the government is doing.
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The transcript of his performance on Monday, where the sentences do not make any sense, even circulates on social networks and people laugh at him like the once legendary speech of the last communist leader Miloš Jakeš at Červený Hrádek.
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ODS leaders argue that they can no longer just watch lying and blabbering headless and heeled as the country faces its greatest crisis in the post-November era. The whole nation watched the tired and confused prime minister on television screens, whom he did not understand at best.
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Nevertheless, the idea of overthrowing the government right now (or in 14 days) is not very strategic. Because the real goal of the opposition after the overthrow of the cabinet should be to take power.
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The ODS knows that it does not have enough votes in the House and does not have a president on its side. So what exactly is its goal? He probably wants to summarize all his reservations in front of a large audience in a live television broadcast from the Chamber of Deputies. And perhaps it also intends to expose the CSSD and the Communists to the question of whether they really want to keep the confused Prime Minister, who manages everything through text messages, in office, and thus take part in the chaos.
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But what’s next? The cabinet will probably survive, so the opposition, driven by success in the regional and senate elections, will again attribute one failure. The rivalry in the opposition can also be seen in this: while Fiala wants to be sharp at the prime minister, the pirate leader Ivan Bartoš has a long-term more restrained attitude towards Babiš’s cabinet and does not want to join him in overthrowing him in the middle of the crisis.
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The second option – the worse for the ODS – is that the government would fall. Then Petr Fiala would be surprised by the result, just like in 2009, CSSD leader Jiří Paroubek, who then did not know what to expect.
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This could happen if, for example, the Social Democrats or the Communists decided to emancipate themselves in a vote of no confidence after the election debacle – and draw attention to themselves. Which is not completely out of the question.
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But then what would follow? Even after expressing distrust, the government would remain in power, because President Miloš Zeman will easily, in spite of everything, entrust Andrej Babiš to form another government again. The result would be even more chaos in the end.
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