Czech Politics: Fiala government

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I read something suggesting the KČSM has connections to the Kremlin. Is there any credibility to this?

Most EE Communists are former officials in the USSR, they have connections with the main base in Russia now inherited by Putin.

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A vote to strip SPD MP Miloslav Rozner of his immunity in order to prosecute him for Holocaust denial has failed by 42-88. Rozner had used the term 'non-existent pseudo concentration camp' to cast doubt on the existence of a concentration camp for Roma in Lety.

The only parties in which a majority of MPs voted for prosecuting Rozner were the Pirates, TOP 09 and the CSSD. KDU-CSL was split 3/3, STAN 2/6, and the other parties (including KSCM) voted unanimously or almost unanimously against the proposal.

Why would the KSCM vote against this measure?

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Czech economic forecasts down as deficit grows

The government is seeking savings worth 25 billion crowns ($1.10 billion), or half a percentage point of economic output, to keep its 2020 budget from breaching targets and, for the first time, forecasts a run of fiscal surpluses to end.

To critics, including economists from the state’s own budget council, the cost-cutting foreshadows uncomfortable budget choices ahead to offset slowing growth.

With a humming economy and record-low unemployment, Prime Minister Andrej Babis’s government had expected growth would pay for pension hikes higher than automatic adjusters, double-digit pay raises for a growing state workforce, and even free train tickets for seniors and students.

Instead, the Finance Ministry cut its 2019 gross domestic product growth forecast to 2.4 percent, from 3.1 percent, although that may still be optimistic as main trade partner Germany slices its own outlook.

[PSOL]

How are the pirates doing?

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Negotiations are already on-going in most places, and in South Bohemia, where Brno is the capital, there is already an agreement on a new governor. KDU-CSL (11 seats), Pirates (10), ODS+Svobodni (9) and STAN (7) have a majority in the 65-seat regional chamber. They have an agreement in place, which will see KDU-CSL Jan Grolich as the new governor. He will replace ANOs Bohumil Šimek, who governed on a ANO-CSSD-TOP09-STAN majority after the 2016 election. ANO held on to its 15 seats, but CSSD dropped from 11 to 4.

Hello!

South Moravia. Anyway, thank you for good reporting.

[PSOL]

What are the arguments for and against the Pirates working with STAN?

[PSOL]

Could you clarify what you mean and explain more relating to the last paragraph?

[PSOL]

The demographics of the Pirates—young, middle class urbanite men—seem much more economically conservative then the official platform of the Pirate Party though

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Czech politics is a bit of a mystery to me,

That's all that people need to know about Czech politics, but one more thing is a mystery to me, how the hell is ANO still first in the polls???

Because they've managed to run a very successful character assassination on the Pirates (helped by them somehow not realising they'd be attacked), and the ODS can be politely described as 'psychotic'.

Huh?

[PSOL]

Is this the end for the Pirate movement?