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Prague<\/strong>\u00a0– On Tuesday in Wenceslas Square in Prague, thousands of people protested against the planned government of Andrej Babi\u0161 (ANO) with the support of the Communists.\u00a0Demonstrators filled the upper half of the square from the statue of St. Wenceslas to the tram track.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Not only politicians and artists, but also historians, physicians, and priests spoke on stage.\u00a0The one-time event once lasted three hours, organized by the Milion Initiative for Democracy.\u00a0The protest rally was also held in other cities.\u00a0“The protest is against the arbitrary conduct of Babis, Zeman and the Communists,” one of the speakers said at the beginning.<\/p>\n

The people brought the flags of the Czech Republic and the European Union, and many of them banners against Babi\u0161, with the inscriptions “You do not bother us”, “Babi\u0161 has to stand in court, otherwise we do not have the rule of law” or “Away with tyrants and traitors”.\u00a0On other transparencies, people had photographs of victims of the Communist regime, among which was the likeness of the Communist of the tortured priest Josef Toufar.<\/p>\n

The people filled the space under the statue of St. Wenceslas, where the podium stood, to the crossing of Wenceslas Square with Jind\u0159i\u0161sk\u00e1 and Vodi\u010dkov\u00e1 Street.\u00a0The upper section of the square was closed by police officers.\u00a0The number of participants did not want to comment.<\/p>\n

There were several opposition politicians on the podium.\u00a0Among them were Miroslava N\u011bmcov\u00e1 (ODS), Ji\u0159\u00ed Dienstbier (\u010cSSD), V\u00edt Raku\u0161an (STAN) and Mikul\u00e1\u0161 Ferjen\u010d\u00edk (Pirates), who spoke about the distribution of “trafik” among the members of the YOUTH.<\/p>\n

In the square came former deputy Krist\u00fdna Zelienkov\u00e1, who in the past came from ANO to protest.\u00a0“ANO is just about filling the Agrofert coffers,” she said.\u00a0She subsequently called on other democratically-minded ANO members to step out of the movement.\u00a0The unsuccessful candidates for President Marek Hil\u0161er and Pavel Fi\u0161er spoke to the people.<\/p>\n

“I appreciate it as a meeting of politicians who failed in the elections and in the presidential election,” he responded to the demonstration.<\/p>\n

“Society is sick”<\/h2>\n

The speech came from historian Petr Bla\u017eek and psychiatrist Petr P\u00f6the.\u00a0“Instead of talking about who is sick and where he lives, we should talk that society is sick,” said P\u00f6the.<\/p>\n

The singers were singing the songwriters Ji\u0159\u00ed D\u011bde\u010dek and V\u00e1clav Koubek, who asked people not to hide their pride and dignity.\u00a0The actress Barbora Hrz\u00e1nov\u00e1 and the presenter Ester Jane\u010dkov\u00e1 also spoke.\u00a0Among the last, the priest Marek Orko V\u00e1cha.<\/p>\n

“Freedom is never and never fought once and for all, it needs to be taken care of, where morality collapses, economics will collapse, the state can not be governed as a company, and money can not be put in the first place,” he said.\u00a0Finally, Dagmar Peck sang the national anthem.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of demonstrators in other cities<\/h2>\n

Protests were not only held in Prague, but also in other larger cities, according to the organizers involved in 200 municipalities.<\/p>\n

About a thousand people were protesting at the Green Zee market in Brno.\u00a0They had banners with the inscriptions: “We do not want a criminal prosecuted prime minister,” “I do not want the Prime Minister Straback, a liar, a bastard, a manipulator, a criminal,” Babis is the cancer of this country, or “Communists and the government do not want to rule”.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of people participated in the parade with the center of Hradec Kr\u00e1lov\u00e9 and the demonstration at the statue of the first Czech flyer Jan Ka\u0161par in Pardubice.\u00a0“We do not like what is happening, the power of the Prime Minister, who cooperated with the StB, and the communists after 30 years, we want to speak, we do not care,” said organizer of the Pardubice protest Ond\u0159ej M\u00fcller.<\/span><\/p>\n

In front of the Slavic cultural house in \u010cesk\u00e9 Bud\u011bjovice, where Babi\u0161 came to the citizens’ debate, he demonstrated about a hundred people.\u00a0Protesters who, when Babi\u0161 arrived, chanted the Hanba or StB, then went into the hall for discussion, where politicians spat over and argued with supporters of the prime minister.\u00a0Babis and the ministers were visiting the South Bohemian Region today.\u00a0Several dozen people protested even in the morning before the South Bohemian Museum.<\/span><\/p>\n

Olomouc and Pilsen met about 500 people, about 400 in Jihlava, about 300 in Ostrava and Liberec. The protests were also in other places.\u00a0In Olomouc there was criticism of the Communists’ efforts to tax religious restitution, some of the speakers in Ostrava called on people to participate in the political programs of the parties they sympathized with and to come to the elections.\u00a0In Liberec, some speakers said they did not want a president who was pulling the republic to the East.\u00a0“Things have moved to where they should not have been,” former advisor to President V\u00e1clav Havel Jan \u0160olc said in Liberec.<\/span><\/p>\n

The organizing initiative, which has organized several demonstrations this year, wanted to collect a million signatures under the Peace Prize for Good Prime Minister and Good Governance.\u00a0To date, she has earned more than 254,000. “If there is something left of the 100 days, it is that civil society lives,” one of the organizers Ben Roll said at the end of Tuesday’s demonstration in Prague.<\/span><\/p>\n

Babi\u0161 will make a premiere promise Wednesday night at Prague Castle.\u00a0After his first cabinet gained no confidence in January, President Zeman will use his second option to appoint after the election of the head of government and promise he will once again become the chairman of the winning electoral group.\u00a0The first Babi\u0161 government, which is in resignation, was one-color, now the ANO holds a coalition with the Social Democrats and the support of the Communists.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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