Pirate Party Leader to Be Prague mayor
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Pirate Party Leader to Be Prague mayor
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Re: Pirate Party Leader to Be Prague mayor
#2Any Czech person around to chim in and shed some light on the implications?
Re: Pirate Party Leader to Be Prague mayor
#3Any Czech person around to chim in and shed some light on the implications?
Czech here. We will see. He's totally unknown, without any experience in politics. But after the previous disastrous mayor, it's pretty hard to be worse.
Re: Pirate Party Leader to Be Prague mayor
#4Any Czech person around to chim in and shed some light on the implications?
Yes, I'm Czech living in Prague. Last 4 years the Prague local government was led by ANO, the party led by StB (communist secret police) member billionaire Andrej Babis. Their campaign was extremely strong then and they won - today Prague is in horrendous state, bridges are literally falling down (2 more just this week), traffic is worse (extremely worse!) than ever due to idiotically planned long roadworks that have to be soon redone and zero construction of much needed infrastructure, the public transport is way worse than it was, taxi mafia is still the same, they caused a huge housing bubble... And on top of that Krnacova calls Prague people who don't like it "whiners", repeatedly and on purpose - she even recently confirmed that it's exactly what she wanted to say.
The major implication for the whole country is that at least Prague citizens are absolutely fed up with ANO - that is important because they dominated the whole country politics for the last 2 periods. Today there are 2 other major parties - ODS (Občansko-demokratická strana, Civic Democracy Party) and the Pirate party. These are the three winners of the recent parliament vote - parliament politics affect local politics a lot in the Czech Republic. If you don't want to vote ANO then you vote ODS if you're more on the right (as in free market) and the Pirate party if you're more on the left. There are basically no other options - the remaining "major" (bigger than others but has almost no influence) party in the country is a racist one. Other previously major parties such as ČSSD (social democracy), KDU-ČSL (the Roman-Catholics) and KSČM (literal communists) have fallen down significantly over last 2 periods, most probably because of their cooperation with ANO.
Pirates have a good track record as far as local politics go, but it's a relatively new party and they only participated in smaller cities/villages so far (on top of their recent entry to parliament). This person is completely unknown. Let's see.
Re: Pirate Party Leader to Be Prague mayor
#5Who are the partners in his coalition ? Left ? Moderate or radicals ? Greens ? Others ?
Re: Pirate Party Leader to Be Prague mayor
#6Any Czech person around to chim in and shed some light on the implications?
Honestly I don't know why this should even be on HN. Disclaimer: I don't live in Prague.
Re: Pirate Party Leader to Be Prague mayor
#7Who are the partners in his coalition ? Left ? Moderate or radicals ? Greens ? Others ?
Basically anyone because the point here is to get ANO out of the government.
No radicals though. They're moderate left, but they cooperate with parties on the right as well. Greens in the Czech Republic are radical communists.
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#9Who are the partners in his coalition ? Left ? Moderate or radicals ? Greens ? Others ?
Basically anyone because the point here is to get ANO out of the government. No radicals though. They're moderate left, but they cooperate with parties on the right as well. Greens in the Czech Republic are radical communists.
Greens in Czech Republic are no radical communists, only radical fascists call them this way.