The Chamber proposed state honors for author Milan Kundera, actress and former First Woman Dagmar Havlova Veškrnova, ambassador to Syria Eva Filipi, Prague Archbishop Jan Graubner and singer Karel Kryl. Former Prime Minister and Member of Parliament Andrej Babiš (ANO) claimed the nomination of Milan Kundera as his personal and declared that he was very joyful about it. “Lastly, my proposal to provide the author Milan Kundera the Order of the White Lion, in memoriam, handed by way of the decrease home,” he mentioned. Babiš’s phrases instantly triggered a wave of criticism throughout the social and political spectrum. For instance, MP Barbora Urbanová (STAN) recalled that he was 11 years outdated for this, and lots of additionally draw consideration to the truth that a 12 months in the past he barely knew who Milan Kundera was.
For the award of the state award to President Petar Pavlov, the Home of Representatives proposed, amongst others, author Milan Kundera, actress and former first girl Dagmar Havlova Veškrnova, former Czech ambassador to Syria Eva Filipi, Prague archbishop Jan Graubner and singer Karel Kryl. Some potential candidates didn’t succeed within the voting of the deputies. They included anti-communist fighters Josef and Ctirad Mašín, YouTuber Karel Kovář identified underneath the pseudonym Kovy, and former constitutional choose Eliška Wagnerová.
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Kundera to be added to the listing of parliamentary nominees on the suggestion of the chairman of the ANO opposition motion Andrej Grandma. ANO Member of Parliament Radek Vondráček didn’t achieve selling former President Miloš Zeman and KDU-ČSL Member of Parliament Nina Nováková the final Austrian Emperor and Czech King Charles I. The Home of Representatives eliminated former Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová from the preliminary listing, as compiled by the related subcommittee. Pavel already awarded her the best state award, the Order of the White Lion, in mid-June.
The pinnacle of the ANO motion, Andrej Babiš, expressed his enthusiasm on the X social community. “I’m very joyful! My proposal to provide the Order of the White Lion, in memoriam, to the author Milan Kundera has lastly been handed by the Home of Representatives. I’m very joyful and welcome Mrs. Věra to Paris,” wrote the previous premier. MP Barbora Urbanová from Dolní Břežany added a sarcastic remark: “You’ve got been a member of parliament for 11 years and also you have been a part of the bulk within the decrease home for two phrases. You’re welcome.”
I’m very joyful! Lastly, my proposal to provide the author Milan Kundera the Order of the White Lion, in memoriam, handed the Home of Representatives. I’m very joyful and welcome Mrs. Věra to Paris.
— Andrej Babiš (@AndrejBabis)
June 27, 2024
Lucie Potůčková, the mayor of the city of Mladá Buky within the Trutnovsk area and a member of parliament for STAN, identified that the proposal was handed not because of you, however regardless of you and your appalling speech. “I wager you have not even learn the preface by him,” she mentioned on the X community.
After a while, Babiš as soon as once more “confirmed” his data, as not way back he expressed his remorse over the demise of the well-known writer for Each day saying that “everybody is aware of him”. Nonetheless, when requested what he had learn from a author residing in Paris, he mentioned nothing. “I feel everybody is aware of Milan Kundera, he’s our most well-known author,” he mentioned in an interview with Deník. Babiš additionally recalled that he, as prime minister, had lobbied for Kundera to get his Czech citizenship again. He additionally visited the author and his spouse in Paris in 2018 along with his spouse Monika.
This was adopted by a query from the moderator, what Babiš really learn by Kundera. “What did I learn from him? I’ve been ready for this query. I have never learn something but, however I acquired the Joke. I learn the assessment of the Joke, I do know what it is about, I am , I lived at the moment, so I will the Joke,” he mentioned. We wrote extra about it within the Echo24 journal right here.
In some methods, it’s paying homage to his over a 12 months outdated look on a TV present, the place schoolchildren requested presidential candidates all types of questions. Babiš si within the TV present Okay tabuli! on FTV Prima ripped off the disgrace in entrance of the kids. He did not know what Karel Čapek wrote, who the writer of Švejko is, or what number of stomachs a cow has.
Babiš’s efficiency garnered a complete wave of criticism or mocking reactions on social networks for the MP’s chilly speech and ignorance of Czech literature, historical past or pure historical past. Babiš was not in a position to say what Karel Čapek or Jaroslav Hašek had written, confused the Solar and the Moon between the planets, or answered the query “What number of stomachs does a cow have?” to a schoolboy asking if he knew how a lot milk prices. On the finish, Babiš invited the kids to a steak from the Vodňanské hen at his farm Čapí hnízdo. We wrote extra right here.
Among the many nominees of the decrease home is Jiří Brady, who allegedly ought to have been, however was not, awarded eight years in the past throughout Zeman’s presidency, in addition to the previous Minister of Tradition Daniel Herman, who on the time unleashed the affair surrounding his uncle Brady’s award. The Decrease Home, just like the higher parliamentary chamber, desires state honors for Josef Valčík and Adolf Opálka, but additionally for different folks related with the occasions surrounding the assassination of the appearing Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich, for the co-founder of the Committee for Roma Holocaust Compensation Čeňek Růžička and for Pavel Pecháček, who labored in radio stations Svobodná Evropa and Hlas Amerika.
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The parliamentary listing of candidates additionally contains opera singer Dagmar Pecková, singers Michal Prokop, Ladislav Kantor, Jiří Tichota and Pavel Lohonka, head of the Hradišťan ensemble Jiří Pavlica, moderator, musician and actor Marek Eben, actor Petr Nárožný, author Jaroslav Rudiš, poet and translator Jan Zábrana, architects Eva Jiřičná and Věra Machoninová and photographer Bohdan Holomíček. The MPs additionally recommended, for instance, soccer participant and coach František Cipro, entrepreneurs Simona Kijonková and Josef Průša, economist Jan Švejnar and reporter Martin Dorázin.
