“It simply came to our notice then. If you have a lot of responsibility, you just can’t do without them, I’m not a robot, “Maláčová wrote to Novinka in an SMS.
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She has not yet responded to the question of whether she is going to apologize to the prime minister.
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Neither Prime Minister Babiš nor the chairman of the CSSD and Deputy Prime Minister Jan Hamáček commented on Maláčová’s statement.
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According to Maláčová, the priority now is to resolve the situation around coronavirus. “We are in the middle of the second wave of the pandemic and for me the priority to solve these unprecedented problems is one statement,” she added.
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“That’s a moron, I’m sorry.”
Maláčová spoke unflatteringly about the prime minister after interviewing Czech Television, when she thought that the cameras were turned off. “That’s a mess Babis made. And now we all have to lick it. “That’s an idiot, I’m sorry,” she said.
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There is a long-term tension between Maláčová and Babiš. The prime minister criticized her, for example, in an May interview for Právo. At that time, he stated that Maláčová behaved illegally during the spring phase of the coronavirus crisis.
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“Next time we look forward to you”
At the same time, it is also not the first verbal shootout between government leaders. The head of the state treasury, Alena Schillerová (for YES), became known again with her statement “Next time I will look forward to you” to the address of the Minister of the Interior Jan Hamáček (ČSSD). Then she went to apologize.
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Schiller stated this in the House in May. The dispute then concerned negotiations on compensation to municipalities for co-financing the bonus for entrepreneurs.
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