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"We are the strongest opposition party, the results say so," smiled the chairman of the Mayors, Vít Rakušan, on Saturday evening at the election headquarters in Malostranské Square. "We want the Mayors to be the architects of this joint project. So that we can enter it from the position of the strongest party," adds Vít Rakušan. #Starostové #ODS #volby (translated)

Martin Bartkovský reminded that Andrej Babiš last year in the square in Ústí nad Labem urged people not to vote for those whose leadership they were not satisfied with. According to Bartkovský, the locals listened to him: after counting 65% of the votes, JEDNO ÚSTÍ (Pir/Z/Stan/TOP/NČ+others) had 50% and the ANO Movement had 15%. He commented on the result with the words "Wow." #ÚstínadLabem #Volby2023 #AndrejBabiš (translated)

The last scout™ wrote that in his opinion not all political non-profit organizations are the same and some are useful for the government coalition. He claimed that high school students from Trivis, involved in the activities of the non-profit organization Chance for Return, which he labeled as strongly connected with the association Svatopluk, distributed flyers for the ANO movement on Wednesday morning during lessons at I. P. Pavlov Square in Prague. Elsewhere, according to him, they distributed flyers for Motorists. https://t.co/VZidSBkYZ4 #politika #neziskovky #mládež (translated)

Lately, it is growing a bit (preferences - editor's note), there is a tendency, and I am happy about it. So we still have to get it to the 'top'," says Matěj Ondřej Havel. "We hear it in the squares, people grab me by the sleeve in the train, in the metro, everywhere I move, and they say: Above all, don't argue among yourselves and get rid of Babiš for us," Havel asserts. #volby2023 #politika #českárepublika (translated)

has nothing to do with politics For example, the fact that the most people in the square were drawn by an unknown woman from Cheb, whose campaign – in the words of the cheerleader of the ANO movement, Michal David – "has nothing to do with politics". #Volby2026 #Politika #Praha (translated)

Barbora Mercury stated that the police have closed the case of the traffic accident involving MP Filip Turek, asserting that it was not a criminal offense. However, according to her, the supervising prosecutor concluded that Turek fulfilled the criteria for the offense of causing bodily harm through negligence. Mercury stated that he was not charged because the driver of the ambulance he collided with at the intersection near I. P. Pavlov Square did not suffer serious injuries. https://t.co/pi38vN5LAa #dopravnínehoda #FilipTurek #právo (translated)

The author wrote that in November 1989 he was standing in the square in Ostrava and listening to the name Václav Havel, which, according to him, had hardly been possible to pronounce out loud just a few weeks before. He stated that Havel would have celebrated his 90th birthday this year and reminded of the feeling that a free world had opened up at that time. He urged people not to let this feeling be taken away from them. https://t.co/CD4osxVGse #VáclavHavel #Listopad89 #Svoboda #CZ (translated)

Jura Háček wrote that after yesterday's Cheb, the square in Tachov was also full today and that Babiš came there to dance. He suggested that Vilduna might have a friend in the Senate and questioned whether people asked Tsoukernik what he wanted to do in the Senate, or whether they expected him to just jump around there. https://t.co/miIrjXypkM #politika #Senát #Tachov (translated)

The author of the contribution stated that Mikuláš Minář criticized the ruling authorities at Old Town Square, who, according to him, did not behave like temporary stewards of the country, but as its owners. According to the author, Minář designated the situation as an ongoing kidnapping of the state. As a safeguard against it, the author identified the Senate, which he described as an independent institution. https://t.co/D7UNgj2vqW #politik #Senát #demokracie #CZ (translated)

In today's episode of the video podcast Tečka by Radek Bartoníček, the importance of listening to the critics of Andrej Babiš and Tomio Okamura is discussed, in the context of current political events in the Czech Republic, including the demonstration in the Old Town Square and calls for the protection of children after the death of Petra Wünschová. #politika #Česko #podcast (translated)

Today, a group with Palestinian flags marched through Old Town Square, calling "glory to Iran." Can I ask how Iran helps Palestine? Does it accept refugees or send humanitarian aid? No - the only thing it does is bomb Israel. These people do not want to save the Palestinians, but to destroy the Jews. 🤷 #Palestina #Izrael #humanitárnípomoc (translated)

A very nice issue of Reflex has just come out today. I would be glad if you would give it a chance. Here is my editorial on it: HOW SHOULD WE REMEMBER VÁCLAV HAVEL? I often say that I am "as old as the revolution," by which I obviously mean the Velvet one. And this alone brings a whole set of advantages. Your age always reflects the anniversary of the fall of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia, so you remember it well. I am not burdened by the sins of the past, having to decide whether to collaborate with the regime or not. Likewise, I do not have to blame myself for missing the harsh onset of capitalism and coupon privatization. I had to learn to speak first. And to walk. Those of us born in the early '90s sometimes tend to refer to ourselves as "Havel's children." But how can I identify with a person I didn't properly experience in adulthood, yet who so fundamentally shaped the state I grew up in? And how should I, as well as our entire nation, actually remember Havel? I cannot remember Havel like many other older journalists do. I leave it to my more experienced colleagues. I have only one small personal memory of him. I was about eight years old, and we were on a school excursion in Prague. My classmate and I were lagging at the end of our class line. There was a long queue at Wenceslas Square, and we walked along it. We got a bit distracted and created a gap. And into that gap stepped a crowd of people, in the middle of which walked Václav Havel. We both started staring at him and quickly exclaimed, "Good day, Mr. President," and he replied to us with his typical stammering 'r': "Hello, boys," and then disappeared into a bookstore to sign his books. The queue was standing there for him. It was the year he was dealing with health complications, delivered the famous Rudolfín speech, and signed the absolutely fundamental Czech-German declaration. But I only remember the "hello, boys." And that’s all. When he died in 2011, I was starting in the media, so I was only responsible for some minor media outputs around the funeral. Otherwise, I perceived him as the person whose picture hung next to the blackboard throughout my school life. On television, he appears either as a "gumshoe" in a satirical sketch or giving some speech that is too complicated for my child self to listen to. My opinions of him have therefore formed mostly indirectly, like for most people in our country. Through plays and compulsory reading in school, recordings of speeches, and the exceptional film Citizen Havel, where he allowed us to peer candidly into his private life. I never succumbed to the need to idolize him; I was most fascinated by the fact that despite such a rich life, he was essentially a "normal guy" who enjoyed life and who, even in the presidential office, could fulfill his dreams. A smoke with the Rolling Stones, meditation with the Dalai Lama, a beer with Clinton. None of that made him a better politician. Personally, it made him a human to me. The point of Havel's legacy and its breadth is, in my opinion, that everyone can remember him in their own way. Some remember him as the best person in history, others as a brilliant politician who is missed by the Czech Republic. Others see him as a naive believer in truth who preferred grand gestures over political pragmatism. Some as a womanizer, others as a great world author of absurd drama. Historians and philosophers still debate his legacy to this day. So vehemently that due to one "ezonomist" and pseudophilosopher on an electric unicycle, his name was removed from the library's title. But I would like to highlight one thing about him that seems increasingly rare in today's world. He managed to grow old without becoming bitter. He did not turn into a grump shouting at the clouds. He did not allow himself to be dominated by eternal contrarianism and being against all mainstream opinions at any cost. At the same time, he wasn't afraid to confront the mainstream until the end. I would wish for all of us to grow old like Havel. It’s a pity he was given only 75 years. I would have liked to listen to him even at ninety, which he would have celebrated this year. #VáclavHavel #Reflex #historie (translated)

VÁCLAVSKÉ NÁMĚSTÍ IS RECONNECTED! After 46 years, in the early autumn days, it has finally been possible to correct a major Prague transport mistake - the tracks again connect Vinohradská and Škrétova with Jindřišská and Vodičkova in both directions. So just the surfaces and overhead wires left - but it's getting closer! 🥳 https://t.co/uo2Ai7dDkY #Praha #Doprava #VáclavskéNáměstí (translated)