Prague, (CTK) – Incumbent President Milos Zeman may trust his capabilities in the forthcoming televised presidential debates with his contender, former Czech Academy of Sciences chairman Jiri Drahos, political marketing expert Karel Kominek told journalists today. The second round of the presidential election is held on January 26-27. Before it, the commercial television ...
Prague, (CTK) – Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis (ANO) said he would vote for his release for criminal prosecution in the Capi hnizdo case of a suspected EU subsidy fraud in the Chamber of Deputies today, but he stressed this was a mendacious political case ordered by “mafia.” “We are living in a country ...
Prague, (CTK) – The Mountfield company rejects being linked to the campaign in support of Milos Zeman’s re-election as Czech president, its spokeswoman Katerina Bohmova said today, reacting to media reports about an advertisement lashing out at Jiri Drahos, Zeman’s rival in the upcoming presidential runoff. Mountfield, a retail chain selling garden equipment, does not ...
Prague, (CTK) – Czech President Milos Zeman, who will fight for presidency with academic Jiri Drahos on January 26-27, is no longer the tough guy who was winning television debates like five years ago, Ondrej Leinert writes in daily Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD) today. After five years in office, it seems that Zeman got ...
Prague, (CTK) – State attorneys will resume prosecution of PM Andrej Babis (ANO) and ANO deputy head Jaroslav Faltynek over the Capi hnizdo case only after the Czech police receive the parliament’s report on the vote that stripped both men of their MP’s immunity today, Stepanka Zenklova has told CTK. Zenklova is the spokeswoman ...
Prague, (CTK) – Pavel Litvinov, one of the eight participants in a protest against the 1968 occupation of Czechoslovakia in Moscow’s Red Square, wrote a letter expressing his support for Drahos in the presidential runoff, which historian Adam Hradilek has sent to CTK. Hradilek has been studying the life stories of participants in the ...
Prague, (CTK) – The opposition deputies have criticised Prime Minister Andrej Babis (ANO) for saying that criminal prosecution can be ordered in the Czech Republic at the Chamber of Deputies session dealing with his release for prosecution today. If this was the case, the prime minister should sack Justice Minister Robert Pelikan (ANO) who ...
Prague, (CTK) – Economist Lukas Wagenknecht, who was deputy finance minister in 2014-15 when the ministry was headed by the current PM Andrej Babis (ANO), dismissed Babis’s claim that he denigrated the Capi hnizdo project and that Babis’s political rival demanded it, he told Czech Radio today. The lower house of Czech parliament today ...
Prague, (CTK) – The Czech police can resume the criminal prosecution of Prime Minister Andrej Babis (ANO) and ANO deputy chairman Jaroslav Faltynek over a suspected fraud related to EU subsidy for Capi hnizdo farm since the Chamber of Deputies stripped both politicians of their MP’s immunity today. In each of the two separates ...
