{"id":3534,"date":"2018-03-02T00:00:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T23:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praguebusinessjournal.com\/?p=3534"},"modified":"2020-02-04T19:36:01","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T18:36:01","slug":"lower-house-to-debate-dismissal-of-tomio-okamura-spd-as-deputy-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praguebusinessjournal.com\/lower-house-to-debate-dismissal-of-tomio-okamura-spd-as-deputy-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower House To Debate Dismissal Of Tomio Okamura (SPD) As Deputy Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Prague, March 2 (CTK) &#8211; The Czech Chamber of Deputies will deal with the proposed dismissal of Tomio Okamura as its deputy head at an extraordinary session on Wednesday, Jan Bartosek said on behalf of the step&#8217;s initiators today, adding that he has collected enough MPs&#8217; signatures for the session to be convoked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Critics want Okamura, head of the anti-EU Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) movement, to be dismissed as a lower house deputy chairman over the SPD members&#8217; statements about a wartime Roma concentration camp in Lety, south Bohemia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;It is impossible to keep silent on their comments on the Lety concentration camp, such as that it was a never existing alleged concentration camp or that the Lety camp was not fenced,&#8221; Bartosek (Christian Democrats, KDU-CSL) said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Several hundreds of people died in the Lety camp and further several hundreds ended in the Auschwitz extermination camp.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;It is important for deputies to say whether they want a man, who represents a party with such opinions, also to represent the Czech Republic in a high constitutional post,&#8221; Bartosek said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He said he has collected more than 40 deputies&#8217; signatures that are needed to lodge a request for an extraordinary session.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;The Chamber of Deputies chairman has accepted the request and decided to convoke it for 14:30 next Wednesday,&#8221; Bartosek said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The session, nevertheless, need not take place at all in case the Chamber of Deputies did not approve its agenda. 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