New Green Party draft statutes ready by end of the week, says Bursík

Leader of the Greens, Martin Bursík, has said that he will distribute a new draft of the party’s statutes to Green MPs by the end of the week. Mr Bursík is seeking to change the way the party is run in a bid to unify the Greens, who, he says, are currently too fragmented. Mr Bursík proposes to lessen the power that the party’s national council currently wields, shifting influence instead towards the party leadership. Speaking to journalists on Thursday, Mr Bursík also said that he was not happy for the Greens’ deputy chairwoman Dana Kuchtová to remain in the party leadership. Mr Bursík has called an extraordinary party conference to discuss these matters on September 5-7.