Rakušan criticizes absence of Speaker Okamura on Národní Street

STAN chairman Vít Rakušan criticized the absence of Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Tomio Okamura on Monday on Prague’s Národní Street, which is the traditional center of commemorations of the events of November 1989. The outgoing deputy prime minister and interior minister arrived on Národní in the morning with other representatives of the movement and spoke with some of the people who had gathered at the memorial to 17 November 1989. In this discussion, and later before reporters, he called Okamura’s absence a disgrace.