After the lower house of parliament passed a bill changing the Civil Code to enable same-sex couples to marry in the Czech Republic, President Milo Zeman stated he would veto it. People of the same sex may soon be able to marry in the Czech Republic, according to a bill passed by the lower house ...
Prague, Sept 11 (CTK) – The fact that the public Czech Television (CT) did not broadcast a part of the press conference the right-wing opposition Civic Democrats (ODS) held before the opening of the Chamber of Deputies session today amounts to scandalous censorship, ODS spokeswoman Jana Havelkova said. CT did not broadcast an introductory ...
Prague, Sept 10 (CTK) – Czech opposition Civic Democrats (ODS) offer experienced local politicians as candidates in the October 5-6 elections to municipal bodies, ODS head Petr Fiala said during the launch of the party’s hot election campaign today, and compared the government ANO’s offer to a communist-era soap opera. Fiala presented his party’s ...
Prague, Aug 15 (CTK) – Civic Democrat (ODS) chairman Petr Fiala criticises ODS MP Vaclav Klaus Jr. for supporting the candidacy of Ladislav Jakl, former close aide to his father, ex-president Vaclav Klaus, to the Senate for the anti-EU Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD), daily Hospodarske noviny (HN) writes today. Klaus Jr expressed support ...
Prague/Brno, July 3 (CTK) – Justice Minister Tatana Mala (ANO) has nothing to do in the Czech government because she based her education on copying the work of others, Civic Democrat right-wing opposition ODS) deputy head Martin Kupka said today, referring to the suspected plagiarism in her thesis. Kupka said Mala makes the new ...
Prague, May 17 (CTK) – President Milos Zeman should not use statements that harm the good name of the Czech Republic, the Civic Democrat (ODS) senators said in a resolution they presented to media today. The resolution is another step within the criticism Zeman has faced in the upper house over his controversial statements, ...
Prague, May 11 (CTK) – The draft policy statement of a nascent next Czech cabinet of ANO and the Social Democrats (CSSD) consists of ineffective leftist plans and populist phrases, and the minority cabinet relying on Communist support would be semi-Communist, Civic Democrat (ODS) leader Petr Fiala said today. He commented on the draft ...
Hradec Kralove, East Bohemia, April 28 (CTK) – The Social Democrat (CSSD) central executive committee acknowledged that the party will keep negotiating with the ANO movement about the formation of a coalition government supported by the Communists (KSCM), despite criticism from some committee members today. The committee approved that the final decision on a ...
Prague, April 27 (CTK) – The ANO movement continues to have the highest voter support in the Czech Republic in April, 29 percent, but it decreased below the 30-percent limit compared to previous months, according to a CVVM poll out today. On the other hand, the Civic Democrats (ODS) and the Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL) ...
