CT zigzagged, but in vain. Here are the numbers. Who was in Moravec most of the time and who was not at all

ČT Councilor Pavel Matocha pointed out how it is with the invitation of the chairs of the parliamentary parties to the OVM, who pointed out that there were many complaints about the procedure for inviting guests to the program of Václav Moravec and complaints were made against him -again, for example. , with the chairman of the SPD, Tomio Okamura, who should be noted that “he has not received an invitation from Moravian for perhaps ten years”. “Others complain that the chairmen of the small parties in the government coalition are invited to support above the average,” he said.

That is why the CT Council should have requested from the general director of public television, Jan Souček, the statistics on invitations from the presidents of the political parties represented in the Chamber of Deputies, for this and the previous election period. According to Matocha, the answer only arrived after “several friends, when the general manager replied that the CT Council was not entitled to this information or, according to the CT Editorial Panel, it was an illegal question there.

From the statistics of the guests who came to the OVM broadcast, it continues, although the prime ministers were already on the Sunday debate program 45 times during the period of this election, opposition leaders – the chairman of the ANO movement Andrej Babiš and the chairman. of the SPD Tomio Okamura – did not get on the screens even once.

Usually, between October 2021 and September this year, viewers could see the current president of the KDU-ČSL, Marian Jurečka, in Moravec. And that’s fifteen times, even though it is currently, according to election models, the smallest government party receiving support from voters and, for example, STEM selection model he only expected 3.5% for the People’s Republic in September.

In the second place in the number of appearances in front of the cameras in OVM behind Jurečka was the chairman of STAN Vít Rakušan, who has appeared in Otázky thirteen times, while the prime minister and the head of government were not the most strong ODS only eight times. The chairman of the Pirates, Ivan Bartoš, was presented a total of six times until September, and the leader of TOP 09, Markéta Pekarová Adamová, three times.

In the last election period, opposition leaders appeared more often on the screens

This statistic is even more surprising compared to the previous election period, because although the current leader of the opposition parliamentary parties did not broadcast Otázek even once, before the current government came, the leaders of the opposition party would often take turns in the program. – they were even in OVM more times than the presidents of the time coalition.

Between October 2017 and September 2021, during the government of the former prime minister Andrej Babiš, the leader of the ČSSD, who until February 2018 was Milan Chovanec and then Jan Hamáček, who appeared mostly on Czech television u Moravec. ČSSD (today’s SOCDEM) chaired television 26 times on Sunday.

After that, however, the baton of the most participating chairs in the parliamentary parties in OVM was taken over by the opposition led by the pirate leader Bartoš. He was there sixteen times in the last election period.

While the current prime minister of the ODS administration Fiala has been in Moravec only eight times, in the last election period he visited the program fourteen times, the same number of times as the president of the KSČM Vojtěch Filip.

The former chairman of STAN Petr Gazdík or the chairman of the mayor Rakušan arrived eleven times, and the KDU-ČSL chairs Pavel Bělobrádek, Marek Výborný and Marian Jurečka between October 2017 and September 2021 were part of ten debates managed moderated by V.

In contrast, the chairman of the then strongest ANO government movement and then the prime minister Andrej Babiš was on the screen in OVM only six times, the audience did not see the chairman of TOP 09 Jiří Pospíšil and the then Markéta Pekarová Adamová only three times together, and the audience only saw them three times together. SPD movement chairman Tomio Okamura was not even in the last election period in any of the debates on Sunday.

• KDU-ČSL
• Deputy Prime Minister

• SPD
• Chairman of the Movement for Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD).
• Member of Parliament

In total, they were coalition leaders 32 times in the last election period under the government of former prime minister Andrej Babiš (ANO). In contrast, those who opposed participated in 68 debates.

What is the reason for this? The ČT Council did not learn about it from the CEO Jan Souček, because according to him “the editorial office does not have a historical archive of sending invitations or rejecting them,” which means that it is not clear whether the difference in participation Opposition and individual election leaders in OVM come from the fact that they are not invited to the program, or because they refuse to participate.

According to Matocha, Souček’s statement is “strange” and falls through “the argument used by television before: ‘We invite him, but he refuses to come. ‘” the time has come,” said the consultant ČT.

Media analyst Štěpán Kotrba commented on Matochá’s published statistics, saying that a special rule could be read from it, which Václav Moravec apparently does not like, the frequent opposition of Sunday Questions. “The rule of indirect proportion applies: the more Czech TV supports you, the more reliably you will lose the next election,” Kotrba said on the statistics.