Greens launch regional election campaign

The Czech Green Party launched its regional election campaign on Monday, saying that environmental issues were at the top of its agenda. Party Chairman Martin Bursik said that one of the Greens’ biggest priorities was to limit air pollution through improving public transport. The environment minister also outlined recycling as a priority. Mr Bursik said that the Greens would be focusing mostly on the regional elections, and not the Senate elections taking place at the same time, because of the party was, he said, especially poorly represented on a local level. Mr Bursik did, however, present the Green Party’s 19 candidates for the Senate on Monday, amongst them former head of the Czech Academy of Sciences Helena Illnerova.