Anti-government rallies began in Prague and a number of cities in the Czech Republic on Wednesday, timed to coincide with the celebration of the Czech State Day.
The rallies, according to CNN Prima News, are being held under the slogan “Czech Republic first”, as a large rally gathers on Wenceslas Square in the center of Prague, and among the demands put forward by the organizers of the event are the resignation of the current liberal government, the country’s military neutrality and direct agreements with Russia regarding gas to ensure supplies at low prices, free the Czech industry from foreign dependence, voluntary immunization against the emerging corona virus and food self-sufficiency of the country, as stated in the statement.
According to the channel, similar events are held on the same day in a number of Czech cities, such as Brno, Ceske Budejovice, Ostrava, Karvina, Gavichov, Liberec and others.
The march in Prague and some other cities is organized by the same organizers, who are Jiri Havel and Ladislav Frapel, who call themselves “politically independent citizens”, who organized a march on the same Wenceslas Square on September 3, in which about 70,000 people took part. people participated. According to local media reports, Frapel was recently summoned to the Prague city court because he had not yet been told how he disposed of the large sums collected by citizens for the previous meeting.
Among the speakers expected to speak at the event in Prague are Jerry Kobza, deputy from the national movement “Freedom and Direct Democracy”, Josef Skala, candidate of the Communist Party for the presidency of the country, Miroslav Shevchik, dean of one of the faculties of the Higher School of Economics and others
But this time the weather is not in favor of the demonstrators as the temperature is 10 degrees Celsius and it is raining. Therefore, the organizers assume that there will be significantly fewer participants compared to the events on September 3rd.
Source: RIA Novosti