Ten years without Václav Havel
The anniversary, which will end on Saturday since the death of President Václav Havel, is dedicated to the main text of the fresh Respect under the title Do we miss Havel? And the Czechia, as you will read in it, is preparing in various places this week to commemorate its recent president. “In public life, I lack his clearly defined moral values, the courage to name complex truths intelligibly, and a great ability to empathize with others. Personally, I especially lack his sense of humor, ”answers historian and university professor Timothy Garton Ash in a survey of fourteen personalities who ask the introductory question whether and what the first post-revolutionary president of the Czech Republic has been missing for the last 10 years.
The authors of the text and high school students talked about what the young generation is bringing to Václav Havel’s life. Some say that “Havel doesn’t appeal to them because they are a figure of the past”, others – depending on the school and how he deals with the topic – feel that “there are politicians who don’t just have to arouse negative emotions.” In any case, this week will mark the tenth anniversary of the country without Havel, a number of events in public space: Brno is preparing a debate, photo exhibition, concert and large-format photo posting, a commemorative project 10 years without VH will take place in Prague on Saturday. concerts and parade to the Castle; parts of the program will be streamed. And the Václav Havel Library will, among other things, present a memorial interview with Václav Havel and the 14th Dalai Lama on Friday, and you can join him on the library’s Facebook page or at www.havechanel.cz.
Waiting for the government
The list of important events does not include waiting for the new Czech government, or how Petr Fiala will cope with what was said last Friday: Miloš Zeman said in a press release that he did not really appoint Jan Lipavský as Foreign Minister. The fresh issue of Respekt in the article also deals with this The proposal is because it can be rejected. The headline names the argument by which Zeman, despite the assessment of constitutional lawyers, supports his decision not to appoint a government in the composition negotiated by the proposed prime minister. In recent days, a commemorative video has appeared and circulated significantly on social networks, where Zeman – then in Fialov’s skin, in the role of prime minister with a list of members of his cabinet in hand – interpreted the Constitution in a completely different way than today. The recording of the television debate is from July 1998 and Zeman says in the address of then-President Havel exactly what constitutional experts are now saying en masse about Zeman’s move against the Purple Government: that the president’s personnel veto would be in conflict with the Constitution.
In recent days, most politicians have told reporters that not all days are over; those from the ODS indicated that it was still a lot off-camera and that Peter Fial could still persuade Zeman to stop obstructing the new government. Politicians from other coalition parties, Pirates and Mayors, have mostly said this, adding that “it is Prime Minister Petr Fiala’s responsibility to have an appointed government, so let’s hope he can.” But there was no one but Pirates to wait for the appointment of a whole new government until the outcome of the jurisdictional lawsuit before the Constitutional Court – if Zeman insisted on his meeting with Petr Fiala on Monday. The lawsuit has already been written and Fiala is ready to file it if she fails with Zeman. Rather, the situation leads to a government without Jan Lipavsky, who will have to wait for the Constitutional Court to rule. Until then, either Petr Fiala or Ivan Bartoš could manage the rest of the world. It will be clear around half past five in the evening, when the chairmen of the parties of the future governing coalition convened a press conference.
The CSSD refused to be in the spring
The end of the CSSD in the Chamber of Deputies had a very significant effect on Friday’s online congress of the party. The Social Democrats have chosen a leadership that was unacceptable to them at the last congress in April this year: left-liberal, one who wants to join forces with like-minded actors like the Green Party, who wants to think about the needs of people in a changing world and does not emphasize to “traditional voters”, in translation especially to less educated and older people. The party leaders elected the mayor of Nové Město na Moravě Michal Šmard as the chairman of the CSSD, and the recent foreign minister Tomáš Petříček, who tried to take over social democracy at the congress in April, also took the lead. Jan Hamáček, who defeated him in the election of the chairman at the time, immediately removed him from the position of minister (as a punishment for standing up to him).
Other vice-presidents are Deputy Mayor of Bohumín Igor Bruzl, Governor of the Pardubice Region Martin Netolický, Mayor of Brno-Líšeň Břetislav Štefan, Doctor Robin Šína and former Vice-Chairwoman of the Young Social Democrats Daniela Ostrá. Jana Maláčová also ran for the position of chairwoman of the CSSD, but she failed with her fellow parties on Friday and did not want to run for another position in the leadership. The CSSD will now focus on how to stabilize the economic situation because it has become significantly poorer, and how to engage voters in municipal elections next year and not repeat the parliamentary debacle.
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