Mayors and Independents call for emergency session on public media

The Mayors and Independents (STAN) party is planning to push for an extraordinary session of the lower house to address the future of public service media, party leader Vít Rakušan told reporters on Thursday. The opposition party has sharply criticized the performance of Culture Minister Ota Klempíř (Motorists) who has been tasked with drafting legislation on public media which would replace license fees with state funding, calling him incompetent. It described the government’s statements on the future funding of Czech Television and Czech Radio as “confused and uncoordinated.” The party is demanding clear and concrete information from the government regarding its plans for the nation’s public broadcasters.