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02/02/2015
Social Democrat senator Zdeněk Škromach says he is giving serious consideration to running for president of the Czech Republic in three years’ time. In the past, the long-time politician joked about running but on Monday he confirmed he was ready to do so if he received broad support from within his party. He told reporters in Brno, however, he was by no means launching an early pre-election campaign, recalling the bid by former interim prime minister Jan Fischer who he had said had run out of steam at the finish line. Mr Škromach has long ties to the current head-of-state Miloš Zeman: he was one of several party members who met secretly with the president after the last elections, a wing which allegedly tried to side-line current Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka. As a result, he resigned as deputy leader.
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02/02/2015
Organisers have revealed details ahead of this year’s 22nd Febiofest international film festival to be held in Prague in March. Guests this year will include John Madden, the director of the Oscar-winning Shakespeare in Love, actor Jeroen Krabbé (known for roles in The Fugitive and Kafka), and Italian actress Alba Rohrwacher. American actress of Czech descent Kim Novak, 81, who starred in Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller classic Vertigo and many other films, will receive the Kristián for her lifelong contribution to world cinematography. Her attendance this year was announced in January.
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02/02/2015
The Fire Rescue Service of the Czech Republic released statistics for 2014 on Monday, showing that 114 people died as the result of fires in the country last year – three more than in 2013. Of those, 52 people died in fires in their homes. Related damage was estimated at roughly 2.2 billion crowns. The head of the rescue service, Drahoslav Ryba, confirmed that in 2014 firefighters responded in more than 100,000 instances; a little less than 17,000 cases where they responded were fires. The most common causes of fires were technical failure, negligence and arson.
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02/02/2015
The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by a former police officer convicted to 16 years in prison for murder. The court found there were no grounds for an appeal; last August the former officer, Miloš Babyka, stabbed his wife to death; he fled and spent a week on the run in the Plzeň area before he was caught.
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02/02/2015
Police on Monday began preparing munitions from a damaged munitions site near Zlín for transfer to a new site in Kvetná in the Svitavy area. Each item loaded must be checked individually by officers. The first truck is expected to depart by Monday afternoon or evening. The original depot in Vrbětice, part of Vlachovice near Zlín, was damaged by a massive explosion in October of last year which killed two and led to dozens of uncontrolled blasts in the days and weeks which followed. It is estimated by the police that the transfer of all munitions from the defunct site will take several weeks.
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02/02/2015
The Czech speed skater Martina Sáblíková won a 3000-metre race, part of the World Cup series, in Norway's Hamar on Saturday. The speedskating champion finished ahead of Carlijn Achtereekt and Ireen Wüst of the Netherlands. After Saturday's win, Sáblíková leads the World Cup rating with 430 points.
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02/02/2015
Nearly 6.000 people went to see the Vysehrad Codex, a unique Romanesque manuscript, which was temporarily on display in the Mirror Chapel at Prague's Clementinum during the weekend. The illuminated latin manuscript was written in 1085 to mark the coronation of the first Czech king, Vratislav II, and it is listed as a national cultural heritage. It was last displayed to the public in 1969. Thousands of people have also visited the Prague Castle Riding School to see the Bautzen Manuscript, the oldest existing version of the Dean Cosmas' chronicle from the early 12th century. The Bautzen manuscript will be on display until Monday evening.
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02/01/2015
The Chief of the General Staff of the Czech Army, Petr Pavel, wants to vacate his post at the end of May. Mr Pavel is set to become the head of the oldest permanent body in NATO, the Military Committee. He told the Czech TV on Sunday that the date would allow him to complete his work and get ready to take over the Military Committe. He also said that his successor, Josef Bečvář, has already agreed with the date.
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02/01/2015
Voter turnout in the do-over local elections in 15 municipalities around the Czech Republic, that took place on Saturday, was around 25 percent. Around one fifth of voters came to cast their ballot in the fresh round of elections in Chomutov and Bílina, where previous election results had to be cancelled due to fraud. On the contrary, participation in the local elections in 13 smaller municipalities, which didn't have enough candidates in October, was very high, reaching 70 percent on average.
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02/01/2015
The ANO party of the centre-left ruling coalition would come first in general election with 30.5 percent of the vote, suggests a poll by TNS Aisa released on Sunday. The Social Democrats, who are the largest party in the coalition government, would finish second on 19 percent, the survey indicates. TOP 09 would place third, with ten percent of the vote, just ahead of the Communist Party (9.5 percent) and the Civic Democrats (9 percent). The Christian Democrats would also pass the five-percent threshold to enter the lower house, unlike the Greens and the Dawn party.
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