Articles for tag: Andrej Babiš, ANO, Czech Communists, Czech Corruption, KSCM, Miloš Zeman

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Babis Congratulates Communist Leader Vojtech Filip On Victory

Prague/Nymburk, Central Bohemia, April 21 (CTK) – Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis congratulated Communist leader Vojtech Filip on his re-election at the party’s congress today.   Babis said he believed the forthcoming government-forming talks with the Social Democrats would result in the creation of a government with the confidence of the Chamber of Deputies as ...

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Vojtech Filip Re-Elected Communist Party Leader

Nymburk, Central Bohemia. April 21 (CTK) – The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSCM) will be still headed by party leader Vojtech Filip since he defeated deputy chairman Josef Skala in the second round of the vote at the party congress today.   Filip received the votes from 165 and Skala from 143 delegates. ...

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Zeman Celebrates Democratic Socialism With KSCM ‘Comrades’

Nymburk, Central Bohemia, April 21 (CTK) – What Communists call the “victorious February,” was in fact a “lost February” because it created a power monopoly, President Milos Zeman said about the February 1948 Communist takeover at the Communist congress today.   Any monopoly leads to degeneration, Zeman said.   He also spoke about the executed ...

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Protests Rage Against Zeman, Communists

Nymburk, Central Bohemia, April 21 (CTK) – A crowd of hundreds of people protested against the growing influence of Communists and President Milos Zeman attending their congress outside the building where the congress is held today.   Some 200 protested chanted “Milos into basket,” “the Czech Republic is not Russia” and “Shame on you” in ...

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Opposition Condemns Zeman For Pandering To Communists

Nymburk, Central Bohemia, April 21 (CTK) – President Milos Zeman has violated an unwritten rule of the postcommunist history by attending the congress of the Communists, asking them to tolerate the planned cabinet of Prime Minister Andrej Babis’ ANO and Social Democrats, his critics said today.   Since 1989, no president came to the Communist ...

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Communist Party Ongoing Threat To Democracy

Prague, April 20 (CTK) – The Czech Communist Party (KSCM) is on its deathbed but still it can harm the political scene and society, Josef Mlejnek writes in Lidove noviny (LN) today in an article highlighting the party’s post-1989 development and current role and prospects.   Mlejnek mentions several paradoxes linked to the KSCM, the ...

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Communists Slam Babis For Backing Attack On Damascus

Prague, April 15 (CTK) – The Communists (KSCM) resent it that Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis and other ministers for ANO backed the Saturday night attack of the USA, Britain and France in Syria, KSCM deputy chairman Josef Skala told the Prima television station today.   The Communist want to open the issue in the ...

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Communists Push For Radical Change Within Party

Prague, April 12 (CTK) – Leo Luzar, a candidate for the chairman of Czech Communists (KSCM) and a deputy for the Moravia-Silesia Region, anticipates the party’s congress next Saturday to bring about a radical personnel change of the current leadership, he said in an interview with CTK today.   Luzar believes that the concept of ...

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Communists Ready To Negotiate With Babis

Prague, April 7 (CTK) – The Communist Party is ready to start negotiating with ANO leader Andrej Babis, who heads a minority cabinet that did not win support from parliament, if President Milos Zeman assigns him with forming the next government, KSCM chairman Vojtech Filip told journalists today.   “We can tell more only after ...