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Re: Pirate Party Leader to Be Prague mayor

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Post by chaotic_clanger »

tombuben wrote: post #20
1wd wrote: post #13

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According to [1] the previous mayor was Adriana Krnáčová [2]. There's not much information there. Can you elaborate why she was disastrous? There seems to be a connection to the Blanka tunnel complex [3]? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_municipal_election,_201... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriana_Krn%C3%A1%C4%8Dov%C3%A... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanka_tunnel_complex

Blanka tunnels is an older issue, but under Krnáčová the entire Prague traffic system basically collapsed. There are frequent traffic jams and basically all bridges are in disastrous state. Libeň bridge, one of the only few Cubist style bridges in the world, has been closed for past two years, Troja pedestrian bridge collapsed last year and just a few days ago it turned out another bridge has to be collapsed and rebu…

i do not think the bridges did degrade suddenly, you need decades of neglect. so this is not work of one major.

Re: Pirate Party Leader to Be Prague mayor

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Post by Amygaz »

runn1ng wrote: post #16
emteycz wrote: post #4

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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…

Taxi mafia is the only thing I don't agree with. Uber shaked that up pretty well.

Price-wise is Uber competitive or is it for the top 10% ?

Re: Pirate Party Leader to Be Prague mayor

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Post by consp »

satai wrote: post #28
fermigier wrote: post #5

Who are the partners in his coalition ? Left ? Moderate or radicals ? Greens ? Others ?

TOP09 + Mayors + Christian democrats + Liberals - pro EU right/centrists. Quite sane and with some experience. Praha Sobe - an local movement led by a popular mayor of one of Prague neighborhoods Cizinsky. Hard to characterize in left/wing system. Not included: ODS - "right wing" mix of conservative populists, anti-EU nationalists, local department of corruption and some sane and competent people. Aggressive anti-pir…

> circus party (don't ask, please)...

You are forcing me to ask: Wait, what party?

Re: Pirate Party Leader to Be Prague mayor

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Post by czechdeveloper »

qwerty456127 wrote: post #30
tombuben wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Blanka tunnels is an older issue, but under Krnáčová the entire Prague traffic system basically collapsed. There are frequent traffic jams and basically all bridges are in disastrous state. Libeň bridge, one of the only few Cubist style bridges in the world, has been closed for past two years, Troja pedestrian bridge collapsed last year and just a few days ago it turned out another bridge has to be collapsed and rebu…

> so prices of flats skyrocketed This was amazing. A friend of mine has bought a humble flat and got 100% profit on the investment in just a couple of years! What are the chances the prices are going to fall significantly? Should I advice him to sell now?

If you compare Prague prices to local salaries, they are crazy inflated. But if you compare it to other european capitals, it's not so bad. I don't think that prices will collapse any time soon.

Re: Pirate Party Leader to Be Prague mayor

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Post by foobarian »

saiya-jin wrote: post #39
emteycz wrote: post #4

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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…

Basically the problem of whole east europe (although we like to call ourselves central europe) - too much crap left over communist rule and twisted mentality (ie everybody for themselves, screw the rest). Extremely rich individuals openly influencing politics, laughing at the cameras and enjoying being in spotlight. Prague is a beautiful city to visit, be it for a weekend or a week. But living there long term sucks -…

> Czech love to constantly complain and moan about almost everything

Funny, so do all ex-Yugoslavs, and I understand Russians do too. Could be some kind of Slav thing. Or communist :-)

Re: Pirate Party Leader to Be Prague mayor

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Post by drb91 »

Scea91 wrote: post #25
drb91 wrote: post #17

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At least they have a proper left.... We could use a lot more of this in the US.

Greens do not hold any political function AFAIK (edit: they still have a few senators). In the past few elections they usually gained only around 3 % of votes. Our 'proper' left parties that have some power are those old-school leftist parties that are pro-Russian. The irony is that they are usually quite fond of Trump.

Discourse is a political function.

And I sincerely wish our Green Party had ever gotten 3%.

I’m not sure what you consider left but I’d hazard a guess we disagree based on your comment.

Re: Pirate Party Leader to Be Prague mayor

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Post by yread »

saiya-jin wrote: post #39
emteycz wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Basically the problem of whole east europe (although we like to call ourselves central europe) - too much crap left over communist rule and twisted mentality (ie everybody for themselves, screw the rest). Extremely rich individuals openly influencing politics, laughing at the cameras and enjoying being in spotlight. Prague is a beautiful city to visit, be it for a weekend or a week. But living there long term sucks -…

No nature in Prague? Where did you move that's better? There is lots of nature within Prague: Petrin, Prokop Udoli, Divoka Sarka, Stromovka, Krcsky les, Kunraticky les, Hostivar, Milicovsky les,... Mountains (Krkonose... but you can ski there) are like 120km away. And there is lots of other nature areas within 100km, hills, valleys, rock formations, castles, dams.

Re: Pirate Party Leader to Be Prague mayor

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Post by azag0 »

RivieraKid wrote: post #36
jxub wrote: post #2

Any Czech person around to chim in and shed some light on the implications?

I voted for the Pirates but actually hoped that the leader of another party in the coalition, Jan Čižinský, would become tha mayor. He has proven himself to be a successful and effective manager when he was in charge of Prague 7. Hřib was never in such a high level position. Regarding the implications, all 3 parties in the coalition mostly agree about everything. I'm happy about the result and about ANO losing.

Let's hope then that Hřib is sensible enough that if he finds out he's not up to the job in the process, he'll cede it to Čižinský

Re: Pirate Party Leader to Be Prague mayor

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Post by roel_v »

qwerty456127 wrote: post #30
tombuben wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Blanka tunnels is an older issue, but under Krnáčová the entire Prague traffic system basically collapsed. There are frequent traffic jams and basically all bridges are in disastrous state. Libeň bridge, one of the only few Cubist style bridges in the world, has been closed for past two years, Troja pedestrian bridge collapsed last year and just a few days ago it turned out another bridge has to be collapsed and rebu…

> so prices of flats skyrocketed This was amazing. A friend of mine has bought a humble flat and got 100% profit on the investment in just a couple of years! What are the chances the prices are going to fall significantly? Should I advice him to sell now?

Probably best to not advise anyone based on random comments from some dude/dudette on the internet...
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