Dozens of anti-government protestors spend night outside Straka Academy

A few dozen anti-government protesters spent the night in front of the Straka Academy, where the seat of government is in Prague, after Sunday's demonstration and were still there on Monday morning. The Czech News Agency reports that they intend to stay until Monday evening. The area directly in front of the main entrance to the building was closed off with barricades.

The protest in Prague's Wenceslas Square on Sunday afternoon was organised by the Právo Respekt Odbornost (PRO) party and was calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Petr Fiala's government. Of the thousands who gathered for the demonstration on Sunday, only a few dozen remained outside the Straka Academy on Monday morning.

The lead organiser of the rally, lawyer and founder of the PRO party, Jindřich Rajchl, had originally threatened a blockade of government buildings, but later had to call it off. Neither did the human chain that the protesters were going to form around the seat of government on Sunday take place.

However, the protesters did manage to block traffic along the main road where the procession was marching on Sunday for a large part of the afternoon. Trams also stopped running along the left bank of the Vltava.