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11/25/2017
Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka has said he will hand over his government’s resignation on Wednesday, November 29th, i.e. after the newly-elected Chamber of Deputies ends its consituting session. Prime Minister Sobotka confirmed the date on Twitter on Friday.
President Miloš Zeman announced earlier that he would appoint ANO leader Andrej Babiš prime minister on December 6th, and would appoint his minority government on Friday, December 15th. The prime minister designate is expected to brief President Zeman on his cabinet line up next Tuesday.
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11/25/2017
Moscow has issued a sharp protest over the vandalizing of a statue of Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev in Prague which was spray painted with the dates 1956, 1961, 1968 and 2017 earlier this week. The Russian Foreign Ministry denounced the act as vandalism and an insult to those who had laid down their lives in the liberation of Czechoslovakia.
The incident happened shortly after an offensive article appeared on a Russian web which said the Czech Republic should be grateful for the 1968 Soviet-led invasion which had brought the country 20 years of peace and stability. On a state visit to Russia, President Zeman protested against the insult to his country and Russian Prime Minister Medvedev publicly distanced himself from the article.
Marshal Konev is perceived as a controversial figure in the Czech Republic. After being present on several fronts in WWII, Konev was involved in the suppression of the Hungarian uprising in 1956 and was also present in Berlin for the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961.
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11/24/2017
Euro MP and former justice minister Jiří Pospíšil is set to be the next chairman of TOP 09 at the party’s congress at the weekend, taking over from one of the founders and current leader Miroslav Kalousek who is stepping down, news site iDnes reports. The party, which finished third in the national election in 2010, has since seen a massive drop in voters, registering just 5.31 percent of the vote in the election in October of this year. The party achieved its initial success under the leadership of Karel Schwarzenberg, former chancellor to Václav Havel and later foreign minister.
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11/24/2017
Prague’s High Court confirmed on Friday that Russian hacker Yevgeny Nikulin can be extradited to the United States; the 30-year-old hacker was arrested by Czech police in October 2016 on an international warrant. Mr Nikulin is also sought by Moscow. Prague’s Municipal Court earlier ruled that requests made by Russia and the US for extradition were both valid.
Mr Nikulin is wanted by the FBI in connection with a hack of LinkedIn in which the passwords of more than 100 million users of the professional networking service were compromised. Russia applied to have Nikulin extradited to Moscow in connection with a 2009 internet theft of 3,450 US dollars. The final extradition decision will be made by the Justice Minister; Mr Nikulin is reportedly considering filing a complaint with the Constitutional Court.
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11/24/2017
Lobbyist Roman Janoušek has filed a request with Prague’s Municipal Court for the remainder of his prison sentence to be waived for health reasons. His health has failed to improve and his sentence was aready put on hold once.
Mr Janoušek was sentenced to 4.5 years in prison for a hit-and-run while driving under the influence. He served part of his sentence from November 2014 to March 2016.
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11/24/2017
Saturday is expected to be mostly cloudy. Daytime temperatures should reach highs of around 9 degrees Celsius.
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11/24/2017
The Interior Ministry has officially confirmed there will be nine candidates in the presidential election in January, and rejected and additional 11 would-be entries who failed to gather the requisite signatures. Successful applicants were required to collect either 50,000 signatures from the public, 20 from MPs in the lower house or 10 from senators.
Miloš Zeman is the incumbent seeking a second and final five-year term; polls put the former head of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Jiří Drahoš, and lyricist and former betting agency owner Michal Horáček, as his most serious rivals in the race so far. Also running for president is former prime minister Mirek Topolánek, the former Czech ambassador to Paris Pavel Fischer, doctor and activist Marek Hilšer, the former head of Škoda Auto Vratislav Kulhánek, the head of the Defense and Security Association Jiří Hynek, and musician and politician Petr Hannig.
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11/24/2017
Czech President Miloš Zeman, has completed an official state visit to Russia, during which he met with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and also Mikhail Gorbachev.
A delegation representing some 130 Czech firms accompanied the head of the state on his visit since the beginning of the week.
Earlier, President Zeman launched a business forum in Yekaterinburg, in the aim of boosting potential cooperation between Czech and Russian firms.
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11/24/2017
Lawmakers elected four of five deputy speakers in the new Chamber of Deputies on Friday, giving their votes to Vojtěch Pikala of the Pirate Party, Tomio Okamura, the head of the Freedom and Direct Democracy, Vojtěch Filip of the Communist Party, and Jan Hamáček of the Social Democrats. Petr Fiala, the head of the chamber’s second-largest party, the Civic Democrats, failed to get support in two rounds.
All of the voting was by secret ballot.
New candidates can be put forward next week; the post of fifth deputy speaker will remain unfilled for the time being.
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11/24/2017
The proportion of Czech national wealth flowing into the payment of pensions has dropped in the past years to 8.3 percent from 9.7 percent. The figures were released by the Research Institute for Labour and Social Affairs.
According to the outgoing head of the Pensions Commission, Martin Potůčka, politicians should respond with a statement about what percent of national wealth should be set aside for pensions payment.
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