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“Not such a stupid move”: Populist right parties announce electoral alliance plan
“I think that both SPD and Tricolour got inspired by what we saw during the elections in 2021 when the then opposition parties created two coalitions [Together; Pirates…
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Why does cronyism thrive so well in Czechia?
“There are several reasons for the rise of crony capitalism in the Czech Republic. The first was the way that the privatization process in the 1990s took place. It was…
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Pavel criticises government communication – but is he right?
“I’m afraid that President Pavel is right, because the government really does not communicate well with the public. “There are some steps that would really need much more…
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Analyst: Babiš using similar strategy to Poland’s Kaczynski
“I think that Babiš is trying to use a similar strategy to the one we know from Poland, where Jaroslaw Kaczynski is the leader of the Law and Justice party but doesn’t…
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Expert: Court acquittal may boost Babiš’s chances in presidential run, but not enough
“I think that the acquittal may boost Babiš’s chances in the first round because there may be a few percentage points that he will gain on top of what he already has…
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Pundit: Czech voters are giving the government a second chance
“Well, we have seen a certain rise in support for the populist ANO party of Andrej Babiš and Tomio Okamura’s Freedom and Direct Democracy, so one could argue that, yes…
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Czechs mulling choice of next president as date for election set
“Well I think that especially the war in Ukraine may, to some extent, affect who people choose for their next president. Obviously, there is still a large degree of…
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Analyst: Government likely to survive Hlubuček scandal “because at this point there is no alternative”
“Yes. I do think that the government will be shaken by the ‘Hlubuček affair’, but it will survive, simply because at this point there is no alternative. "That’s because if…
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Pundit: “Several factors” behind Babiš presidential announcement delay
“I think that there may be several factors contributing to the fact that Babiš has decided to postpone the official announcement of his candidacy. “One of them is of…
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Pundit: Handling of US base issue shows “a lot of amateurism”
“I think that, unfortunately, this was one of the occasions in which Czech politicians have once again shown that they don’t know how to handle these very sensitive big…
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Castle scandals put spotlight on presidential powers
“I think that unfortunately a small group of people around President Miloš Zeman has privatised the Office of the President and is using it for its own objectives, which…
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Political analyst on Kyiv visit: They wanted to show that they do not recognize Russian dominance
“I think it was an important symbolic gesture. We still do not know exactly what was promised , whether it was just a diplomatic visit showing support for Ukraine or…
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Fiala appointed PM – but what next on path to new government?
“I think that what President Zeman is trying to when he says that he wants to interview all the ministers, or candidates for ministers, is certainly not normal under the…
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Pundit: “It’s a definite breakup between Zeman and Babiš”
There have been so many developments surrounding Mr. Zeman’s team. The police are evidently investigating his head of office, Mynář, and the foreign minister is removing…
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Political scientist Jiří Pehe on motions from the center-right: We are seeing a struggle over who will lead the next government
“It seems that at this point both coalitions are basically just trying to show voters that they are doing something with regard to the Babiš government, but in fact it is…
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Political analyst: When emotions subside people will come to see that the present election system is unjust
“Well, the parts of the election law that were invalidated are those that discriminated against small parties and given the fact that in the Czech lower house we have one…
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Political scientist: PM Babiš is on a downward trend that he will find it hard to change
“I think that the government underestimated the second wave of the corona crisis in the summer, when everyone knew – experts were talking about it openly – that there…
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Pehe: Protest leader’s move into politics reflects opposition’s lack of threat to Babiš
“I think that Mikuláš Minář has come to the conclusion that his appeals to the current Czech opposition parties to unite and beat Andrej Babiš have not succeeded, that…
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‘Velvet Retro’: historian Veronika Pehe on Czech pop culture, (anti)heroes, collective memory and post-communist nostalgia – for resistance
Scholars of state socialism have frequently invoked ‘post-communist nostalgia’ to identify an uncritical longing for the utopian ambitions and lived experience of the…
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What next for anti-Babiš group Million Moments for Democracy?
The leader of Million Moments for Democracy, Mikuláš Minář, told a huge crowd at Letná Plain on Saturday that the attendance was 300,000. Though the real figure may well…
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Taking stock of democracy 30 years after the fall of communism
My guests in the studio for a debate on these and related questions are: political scientist Jiří Pehe, economist and writer Tomáš Sedláček and Czech Radio journalist Vít…
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Analyst: Klaus Jr. may be “most trusted” politician but he is highly polarising figure
“I think that Václav Klaus Jr. is for many a new face in Czech politics, at least for many voters. “From time to time in in the local political scene we see someone who…
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Poll suggests Communists would not get into lower house for first time
“The previous polls by Kantar were not unreliable. They proved to be quite correct, so I would not agree with this argument. At the same time it is necessary to say that…
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Anti-Babiš protests reach fresh heights – but what real impact can they have?
“I don’t think that the protests will have an impact in the short run. “I think, however, that they are changing the atmosphere in Czech society. “Because the mere fact…
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Political analyst: Ministers who do not score points for ANO have to go
“As I see it, there are two reasons: one is the need to make a change and give new energy to the ANO party ahead of the European elections and the second is that the two…
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