Mikuláš Minář announces plans to enter politics

Mikuláš Minář has resigned as head of the Million Moments for Democracy civic initiative and unveiled plans to establish a political movement with which he will run in the next parliamentary elections.

The civic movement, which he established in 2017, gained considerable support with as many as 250,000 people attending protest rallies against the government of Andrej Babiš last summer.

Minář will be replaced at the head of Million Moments by theology student Benjamin Roll. The civic initiative will remain a protest movement.