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11/26/2017
The police has asked the lower house to strip deputy Bohuslav Svoboda, former mayor of Prague, of his immunity, to enable further criminal prosecution linked to the former mayor’s involvement in the city’s Opencard.
Svoboda was earlier charged with misuse of public funds and violating the law on public tenders. The deal on the multi-purpose card was found to have been hugely disadvantageous for Prague City Hall.
Svoboda was served a suspended two year sentence in connection with the case, and appealed the verdict, before regaining parliamentary immunity in the elections.
The lower house has already received a similar request as regards ANO leader Andrej Babiš and his deputy chair Jaroslav Faltýnek, who were charged on suspicion of EU subsidy fraud earlier this year.
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11/26/2017
The start of the week should be partly cloudy to overcast with scattered rain or snow showers and day temperatures between 1 and 5 degrees Celsius.
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11/26/2017
The newly-elected chairman of the lower house Radek Vondráček from the ANO party has said he would appoint his predecessor in the post Social Democrat Jan Hamáček first deputy chair. In a debate on Czech public television, Mr. Vondráček also indicated that the foreign policy portfolio in the lower house would not go to SPD’s Tomio Okamura. Mr. Okamura’s party is strongly anti-EU and anti-migrant.
Radek Vondráček likewise expressed support for the election of Petr Fiala of the Civic Democrats deputy chair. He said his failure to win support earlier this week was the result of a communication failure.
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11/26/2017
MEP Jiří Pospíšil was elected leader of the centre-right TOP 09 at the party’s two-day conference in Prague. Mr. Pospíšil, who entered the party only recently, won support from 147 out of 177 delegates present. Markéta Pekarová Adamová was elected first deputy chair.
The party’s former leader Miroslav Kalousek accepted responsibility for the party’s poor showing in the elections and did not run for re-election. The outgoing party leader Miroslav Kalousek will continue to influence party politics since he is head of the party deputies‘ group in the lower house.
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11/26/2017
A senior member of the Social Democratic Party, Jeroným Tejc, has announced he is leaving the party after twenty years. Tejc said he was disillusioned by the party leadership’s unwillingness to accept responsibility for what he described as the debacle in October’s general elections, and that he saw no will in the party for change.
The party is to hold an election conference in February, but the current leadership rejected a proposal for the party leader to be elected in a direct vote rather than by delegates as hereto.
The South Moravian party branch of which Tejc is a member, has called on outgoing Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka to give up his deputy post over the party’s poor showing in the elections. The party won just over 7 percent of the vote and is headed for the opposition.
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11/26/2017
The Czech music awards ceremony Český slavík - or the Czech Nightingale - held in Prague on Saturday saw Lucie Bílá clinch the title of best female singer for the twentieth time ,while pop idol Karel Gott won for the 42nd time. The best musical group award went to Czech heavy metal band Kabat for whom it is the twelfth trophy.
A special award went to 1960s singer Marta Kubisova who recently announced the end of her career at 70. Kubišová who was banned from singing by the Communist authorities for 20 years, got a standing ovation. Český slavík winners are chosen through a public poll.
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11/25/2017
Sunday should be partly cloudy to overcast with day temperatures between 1 and 5 degrees Celsius and scattered rain or snow showers.
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11/25/2017
The investment group PPF of Petr Kellner has signed an agreement on the purchase of 100 percent shares in the Plzen engineering company Škoda Transportation. The sales deal was confirmed by PPF spokeswoman Zuzana Migdalová, though she did not specify how much PPF paid for the company.
According to the business news site ihned it was over 10 billion crowns. With its 5,300 employees, Škoda Transportation is the biggest transport engineering company in Central and Eastern Europe.
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11/25/2017
The president of the Czech Republic should coordinate his foreign trips with the government, according to the eight presidential candidates who are challenging incumbent head of state Miloš Zeman for the country’s top post.
In a poll conducted by the ctk news agency all of them said they would fully respect this. Many are openly critical of the fact that Miloš Zeman’ s activities and statements are not always in line with the government’s foreign policy, sending mixed signals abroad.
Under the Constitution of the Czech Republic, is it the government which moulds the country’s foreign policy, not the head of state.
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11/25/2017
The centre-right TOP 09 party is holding a two-day conference at which delegates are expected to elect a new leadership. The party is also analysing its poor showing in October’s general elections at which TOP 09 won 5.3 percent of the vote, which gave them just seven seats in the lower house.
The party’s outgoing leader Miroslav Kalousek has accepted responsibility for the election debacle and is not running for re-election. MEP Jiří Pospíšil, who recently joined the party, is seen as a hot candidate for the top post.
In his address to delegates, Mr. Kalousek said the party needed to address the problem of what he called the party’s poor regional network. The election of a new leadership is to take place on Sunday.
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