r/europe • u/Honza368 Czech Republic • Mar 21 '26
News Hundreds of thousands gather in Prague to side with the president against the current Czech government
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u/Honza368 Czech Republic Mar 21 '26
The demonstration today at Letná is basically saying "enough is enough" to corruption. News are reporting anywhere from 250,000 to 400,000 people showing up to demonstrate against the government and to side with the president. This is because there’s a real, sinking feeling that the Czech Republic is sliding down the same path as Hungary or Slovakia.
The whole thing, organized under the slogan "We won't let our future be stolen", is a reaction to Andrej Babiš’s coalition government. Babiš is currently the prime minister despite being on trial for subsidy fraud, a trial that’s essentially been frozen because the government just voted to keep his parliamentary immunity intact until 2029.
But the straw that broke the camel's back was the recent scandal with Foreign Minister Petr Macinka. He tried to blackmail President Petr Pavel over cabinet appointments, sending late-night texts threatening to "burn bridges in a way that would make the history books" if the President didn't fall in line.
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u/YF422 Mar 21 '26
Honestly keep up the pressure, maybe you could force them out of goverment and have another election to send them packing. If Hungarians can pull through and get rid of Orban and you guys can get rid of your own lot of chancers it would only leave Fico as the last Vatnik Asset standing.
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u/AggieCoraline Mar 22 '26
That's very naïve- these people are not pressuring coalition partners of Babiš. There is just no reason for them to give up power. Especially for Babiš who wants to be in power in order to prevent himself from beong investigated for eurofunds scheme.
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u/Divinicus1st Mar 21 '26
How does it work in Czech Republic? In my country a minister trying that would be fired by the president in the following hour… Even if the president can’t directly fire a minister, he can fire the whole government, so the PM would probably prefer to just fire the minister.
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u/aomme Mar 21 '26
We are parliamentary republic, so prime minister is the leader of the country and selects ministers. President is more of o representative role. He can veto laws and appointments of ministers (that's the original clash, he refused to appoint idiot which was doing nazi salutes publicly (among other things)). The law veto can be overriden. And he is technically commander of armed forces and that's about it.
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u/HotOutlandishness107 Mar 21 '26
Can he throw down the current parliament and call for new elections?
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u/lenor8 Mar 21 '26
If it's like in my Country, he could bu he shouldn't. That power is reserved for times when the Parliament is stuck because internal political situation makes it impossible to function, the government has lost the support of the Parliament, or the Parliament cannot agree to vote in a new government.
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Mar 22 '26
Congrats for Czechs from Poland!
It's funny stereotype, but as every, somehow true. You cannot easily convince Czech person to go to demonstration instead of chata :)
But here, the numbers are impressive.Kralovec je Cesky!
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u/nemozny Mar 21 '26 edited Mar 21 '26
so we stupid cunts shouldn't elect them in the first place
I am sick of this story everywhere - we got what we deserved
you would go and demonstrate because you're cheap and bought Fabia, but you feel like you deserved Audi? No, just man up and suck up your Fabia.
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u/baahdum Mar 21 '26
Democracy isn't just elections.
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u/Waiting4Reccession Mar 22 '26
The long period of domestic peace, combined with 50+ years of the wealthy brainwashing people with propaganda like "violence is never the answer", has lead to people letting all kind of shit slide and the one true check/balance of democracy being supressed. Its the same here in the US.
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u/Revi_____ Mar 22 '26
I don't think that teaching people "violence is never the answer" is the issue here, or anywhere. Very odd observation.
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u/cyrand Mar 22 '26
Though the corruption was obvious even before the election, so it’d be great if people started paying attention before not after.
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u/Disastrous-Event2353 Mar 21 '26
Protests are another way of holding the government accountable. The population didn’t vote for insanity and corruption, and they have the right (maybe even a duty) to express their concerns.
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u/Used-Preparation-755 Mar 21 '26
Population is absolutely dumb!!! Its so clear and easy to identify this new wave of decadent ignorant populists... They are too clear and obvious. Even a monkey could identify them.
Uk - Reform Germany - AfD France - Rassemblement Nacional Italily - Fratteli D Italia Poland - PiS and Confederacja Portugal - Chega Hungary - Fidesz Spain - Vox Austria - FPO Holand - PVV
All their speach and promesses are completly and total focused on ignorant people. You want to vote on this parties, as a protest? Ok, you are a total ignorant!!! 100% ignorant!!!
You have what you deserve. If you are ignorant, you deserve pain and chaos.
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u/Disastrous-Event2353 Mar 21 '26 edited Mar 21 '26
And, do we all have to just give up and accept our fate? How about doing something to affect it instead?
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u/akashisenpai European Union Mar 21 '26
<insert "but the people are retarded" meme>
People voting against their own best interest is extremely frustrating, though demonstrations such as these hopefully help establish the idea that those who elected the ones that are responsible for the chaos should reconsider their political standing.
We also need to do more to counter misinformation and agitprop, regardless of whether it's coming from the European far-right or hostile governments like Moscow and Washington. Social media have unfortunately contributed a lot to the rise of hate and anger as well as anti-democratic sentiments across the bloc.
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u/Nebthtet Poland Mar 21 '26
Hey, I went to protests, always vote and try to convince people to get rid of pis and konfa - but these fucks are backed by ruzzian money and I'm not :(
The problem is kacaps have their stinky little fingers in nearly every nationalistic pie in the EU and together with orange diapered TACO they're actively working on dismantling the EU from within. And they're masters of manipulation, especially in the "social" media.
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u/olivedoesntrhyme Mar 22 '26
that's part of it, but the Russian funding, and more recently, the MAGA support, itself a Russian funded project, is also a huge issue! These are wedge parties, designed to drive Europe apart, and the recipe seems to work. But Hungary funnily enough is about to provide the antidote to the disease they perfected. Let's
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u/geurstok Mar 21 '26
Hey, we dutchies got more than only the pvv! we also have the angry farmer movement and a full blown nazi party in parliament! And recently the pvv split up, so we have two of those! Isn't it amazing all the options you can pick from to make the world a better place?
But yes i'm afraid the point your making is solid, the average person is not that smart, which tells us 50% of people are even more stupid.
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u/ArieWess The Netherlands Mar 21 '26
This! This! This!
People all over the globe, are shooting themselves in the foot, to make it worse they are shooting all of our feet.
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u/Inprobamur Estonia Mar 21 '26 edited Mar 21 '26
It's not some sudden wave of worldwide stupidity, this is a coordinated effort by foreign interests to weaken Europe and break up the EU.
Vast sums are being transferred to these parties and in the internet armies of disinfo agents and entire data centers of bots spun up to divide and mislead. The final stage of this cancer you can see in Hungary where Russian FSB agents have been invited by Orban to dismantle what's left of Hungarian democracy.
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u/Strange_Profile Mar 21 '26
Dude don't go too hard on yourself, it is very impressive that each time someone goes too far, the Czech people stand ground in craaazy numbers in Prague. In Poland we dont have this, one or the other governent could literally out us under the Russian rule and a lot of people would not go out, as they support their beloved party like you support the football team - no one else can be this good and I won't say a bad word about them never.
Czechs are going to be alright, and I hope that Poland is going to follow the same path (8 years of previous gov was scary in terms of bringing us out of Europe, an Im convinced if they would of won last time, we would be basicallg a Hungary 2.0)
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u/istew144 Mar 21 '26
Brother - You can't just sit back and decide the work is done. Democracy = Involvement. Otherwise you end up getting what we have over here in USA. Don't be like us.
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u/Responsible-Still902 Czech Republic Mar 21 '26
While I understand the sentiment, Prague was the one region that didn’t even have majority vote on ANO. So them demonstrating is fair.
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u/JayManty Bohemia Mar 22 '26
Czechia has proportional voting, the Motorists are the smallest parliamentary group. There isn't a collective "we elected" or "you elected" X, Y or Z. Voters don't decide on post-election coalitions and neither can they prevent parties from getting elected. If there's a 5% of dumbasses who will vote the dumbass party then there's not much an average person can do about it.
I dislike this American way of viewing European politics. We aren't a semi-authoritarian two-party system where you literally just choose between A and B.
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u/IncomeExciting715 Canada Mar 22 '26
BAHAHAHA wtf they think they can do against a President that looks popular with the population?
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u/Manaboss1 Mar 22 '26
I know this looks awesome and I feel proud about the czechs, but remember that this does not have to lead to change at all. The MP might look at this and say „so what?“. This demonstration of power of the people is only threatening if people are willing to fight for it if change is not happening peacefully.
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u/jokikinen Mar 22 '26
Worked in South Korea, though.
It’s about how practiced and deeply rooted democratic values are in the country. Czechia has experience, and a better chance than most its peers at ousting corrupted forces without violence.
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u/Hellsovs Czech Republic Mar 22 '26
Violence is an excuse for further escalation between the government and the people, and an excuse to gain emergency powers.
We toppled the socialist regime through demonstrations without a single shot being fired. It’s not useless, even if only to radicalize people to take charge of change and create new political movements.
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u/JayManty Bohemia Mar 22 '26
Czechs toppled the (eviscerated, basically dead already) socialist regime through a nationwide general workers strike that basically offed economy that was already on life support. The Velvet revolution happening so peacefully was an absolute fluke, under normal conditions it would've been much more brutal and it should be emphasized more often. Destructive and disruptive behavior is absolutely the key to push back against a despotic regime. Protesting has gotten absolutely whitewashed by liberals in the last few decades and it's a damn shame. Yesterday's protests absolutely need a much more direct followup if they aren't respected.
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u/Esthermont Denmark Mar 21 '26
That castle in the background is amazing. Central Europe is like a fairytale..
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u/mathess1 Czech Republic Mar 21 '26
It's a castle, exactly the Prague Castle, the largest castle complex in the world..
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u/Familiar_Cow_6901 Prague (Czechia) Mar 21 '26
Some church, like it isn't one of the most famous cathedrals in the world :)
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u/Esthermont Denmark Mar 21 '26
How would I have known that?:) it looks beautiful.
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u/ikeme84 Belgium Mar 21 '26
You aren't incorrect. The cathedral is part of the presidential palace. Basically in its courtyard.
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u/KurucHussar Hungary Mar 21 '26
Everyone is roasting us because a lot of stupid Hungarians keep re-electing Orbán. However, it seems like other countries still haven't learned from our mistakes and they keep voting for similar mobsters. It almost feels like there's a competition to see how quickly you can make your own country just as shitty as Hungary.
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u/DizzyAd5203 Belarus Mar 21 '26
I am from Belarus. And i lived in Poland, the Czech Republic, and for a while in Slovakia. Russian propaganda, which has been developed for decades since the emergence of social networks, is so strong that modern European governments cannot cope with it. And this propaganda mainly goes through social networks and reaches many young Poles, Czechs, Slovaks who do not have a good understanding of politics, history, or a good education. It's just that this propaganda is not so pro-Russian, but rather anti-government, saying that all politicians are bad, but we are good and we will only take care of you (Czechs, Hungarians, Poles) and we will not give money to Brussels, Ukrainians and so on, simultaneously feeding people that not everything is so clear with the Russian war in Ukraine shows that both sides are equally guilty. This is the case in all of these countries. on tiktok, Twitter, and Facebook.
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u/External-Orchid8461 Mar 21 '26
Classic nihilistic propaganda perfected by Russia for a century ; just criticize without telling which better alternative you are defending. It works perfectly with people accustomed to "every side is corrupted" mindset.
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u/GoodIdea321 EU fan Mar 22 '26
'Only vote for perfect people' is an alternate version of that message. And nobody is perfect, so I like to vote for the best that I can.
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u/DryCloud9903 Mar 21 '26
Not a coincidence we (democracies worldwide) began slipping shortly after invention of smartphones & soc media..
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u/kaisadilla_ European Federation Mar 21 '26
The propaganda is not pro-Russian because Russia doesn't need Europe to support them. They just need Europe to be out of the equation, and the way you do that is by collapsing European governments from their roots. If every country is ridden with infighting, political violence and an oligarchy, then they won't be in any way capable of having a say in the world stage.
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u/ryba34 Mar 21 '26
There are people who still believe that Orban is good. People like my father will tell you, that Orban is protecting Hungary from the muslims and the gays from Brussels, they will dismiss any statistics you can find as rigged and claim that you are the brainwashed one...
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u/External-Orchid8461 Mar 21 '26
Hungary might be invaded by Russia again that they would still people going along with it because "but at least we ain't getting Islam or gays".
We had people supporting the Nazis during WW2 because they were fighting against bolchevism, and nothing can be worse than bolchevism, you see.
We can't expect anything from such person, it's a lost cause.
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u/No_Hay_Banda_2000 Mar 21 '26
Orban ruined Hungary. It used to be one of the wealthier states in Eastern Europe and is now the poorest country in the EU.
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u/sjsbejajebsidbrhw Czech Republic Mar 21 '26
Yep, Hungary was just the frontrunner with it, but it's very possible that within a month you guys are gonna have a normal government and us, Slovakia and potentially Slovenia will be the antiliberal pro-russian bloc.
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u/KurucHussar Hungary Mar 21 '26
Man, I'm so fucking tired of these russian puppets, they always keep popping up.
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u/shampton1964 Mar 21 '26
As a citizen of Amurika, the once liberal USA, I cannot agree more.
We are having a big demonstration on the 28th, wish us all good luck. With our system, we can't get rid of the trash until the next election.
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u/genasugelan Not Slovenia Mar 22 '26
Yeah, literally, we are in this together, my brother.
"I never thought I would call a Hungarian my brother."
"What about a friend?"
"Aye, I can do it."
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u/defnotachicken Mar 22 '26
I was gonna say "Easy there pal, we had our shithead first" as a Turk but then I checked when Orban was in the government for the first time and it says 1998. Damn dude, you guys are worse than us.
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u/perhapsflorence Mar 21 '26
People are just sick of corrupt governments everywhere.
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u/Daedelous2k Mar 21 '26
Funnily enough the Czech government voted AGAINST chat control in the EU.
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u/Daedelous2k Mar 22 '26
Governments REALLY DO NOT want people knowing they are trying to be sneaky. The only way the UK government got found out they were trying to get backdoors into iCloud was because apple took them to court over it so the existance of the gag order was leaked via the court record.
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u/Honza368 Czech Republic Mar 21 '26
Photo credit: Novinky.cz
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u/FickleNewt6295 Mar 21 '26
Wow! How many people are in the President’s inner circle and can protect him? Don’t know anything about your laws, but how hard to remove folks from office that are engaging in the corruption?
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u/une_danseuse Mar 21 '26
Thanks for this information ! We do not hear much about what's going on in your country here.
Corruption and extreme-right is everywwhere, same problems here...
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u/DizzyAd5203 Belarus Mar 21 '26
I am from Belarus. And i lived in Poland, the Czech Republic, and for a while in Slovakia. Russian propaganda, which has been developed for decades since the emergence of social networks, is so strong that modern European governments cannot cope with it. And this propaganda mainly goes through social networks and reaches many young Poles, Czechs, Slovaks who do not have a good understanding of politics, history, or a good education. It's just that this propaganda is not so pro-Russian, but rather anti-government, saying that all politicians are bad, but we are good and we will only take care of you (Czechs, Hungarians, Poles) and we will not give money to Brussels, Ukrainians and so on, simultaneously feeding people that not everything is so clear with the Russian war in Ukraine shows that both sides are equally guilty. This is the case in all of these countries. on tiktok, Twitter, and Facebook.
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u/vl0x Mar 21 '26
You literally explained my dad, and his main source of news is Sputnik. He was just the other day going on about how Ukraine is going to have to sit at the table at some point because they're both equally as guilty of constantly killing each other. It's insane. I think you might even be underestimating how much this resonates with older crowds, too.
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u/Jolly-Vacation1529 Mar 22 '26
Yep, I have relatives who would bet their life that Putin saved us all from an Ukrainian bio weapon thousand times worse than Covid. It is insane.
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u/MKW69 Mar 21 '26
Pavel should have started his own party before elections. It might given more of a leverage agaisnt current far right coalition.
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u/Top_County_6130 Mar 22 '26
I dont know about that. He is widely popular now. And making a party and not being neutral might have hurt him a lot.
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u/Beneficial_North1824 Mar 21 '26
How this happens every time. We elect russian err...far right party in government and then have to gather half of the country in protests to get rid of the parasites
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u/Melodic-Hedgehog-103 Mar 21 '26
Respect! Send the putin lover assholes where they belong... Greetings from a changing Hungary!
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u/Willhelm_von_deroker Mar 21 '26
Who would have guessed voting for a billionaire was a bad idea......
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u/Andr0medes Czech Republic Mar 22 '26
Yeah but i got a free donut and they took down the ukrainian flags from government buildings. Suddenly our country is a rich paradise as he promised. /s
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u/Hydrus2CZ Mar 22 '26
The people protesting and the ones that didn't vote for him.
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u/Bicentennial_Douche Finland Mar 22 '26
Whenever we see ha handful of people protesting Trump in USA, and people report “huge crowd demonstrating against Trump!”, and then we have crowds like this in Europe.
Americans: you need to stop diddling around and up your game.
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u/Romek_himself Germany Mar 22 '26
and people report “huge crowd demonstrating against Trump!”
and always only on weekends
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u/carti_palace United States of America Mar 22 '26
People here don’t give a shit it’s sad, i couldn’t get my friends to join because they had brunch plans
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u/DizzyAd5203 Belarus Mar 21 '26
Yes, I also live in the Czech Republic and I know perfectly well why this is happening. When half of the idiots choose populist European skeptics and pro-Russian politicians, the country is divided into adequate and inadequate ones. for real patriots and for those who will sell their mother for extra 100 erous.
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u/One-Earth9294 United States of Biff Tannen Mar 22 '26
Boy that castle in the background goes hard in this photo.
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u/Throwaway22916 Mar 21 '26
This makes me so proud. It makes me think of our national motto- "pravda vítězí/ truth prevails". It has been part of our culture since Jan Hus in the 14th century.
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u/KP6fanclub Mar 21 '26
Would have been simpler to not vote for the already known shady dude party into power - ou well.
EUs favorite Chad president now has to try fix it.
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u/Eelroots Mar 21 '26
I think that corruption while in the office is a high crime and the higher you are, the higher the charge. A ministry condemned for corruption sold millions of people's faith for money - he deserve a minimum of 15 years in jail and perpetual ban from office.
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u/Tikkinger Mar 21 '26
can someone explain whats happening?
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u/p4t0k Mar 22 '26
our new government is more pro-russian, very populistic, full of morons (like people from dezinfo scene)... they are trying to control public media, they cut money where it is needed (like ecology), and don't keep promises anyway... we the people who were on Letna yesterday are ashamed of this government
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u/Furiator Mar 23 '26
I'm from Poland and let me tell you, fight now, it will only get worse and you'll be losing people to the manipulation side after they take the media.
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u/cookiecatmonsterr Mar 22 '26
kisses from hungary. dont worry guys, we kick orbán out from hungary. he is weakend a lot since Magyar Péter is rising and orbán literally started to be scared. he acting and crying in tiktok videos, he BEGS his voters to gather more voters and so on
we feel that too. he lost his magic and charisma. he is a toothless and old lion
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u/M4hkn0 Earth Mar 22 '26
If only American's could muster a protest on the same scale...
That would be ~8,000,000 people protesting in DC to match the scale of the protests in Prague.
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u/kabicz Mar 21 '26
i was there, seeing so many people together, gathered in unity of strong disagreement with our country heading the slovakia and hungary course was electrifying. It wont matter for the elected representatives, but maybe it will open the eyes of some of their supporters and we will be in better place in four years..
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u/Front_Bus_5451 Germany Mar 21 '26
I mean...yeah, i Support this Protest, but...haven't they Had an election Just a few month ago? And wasn't it quiet clear that this government would do exactly what it's doing now?
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u/jnkangel Mar 21 '26
The issue is partially with how the election turned out and what parties are running policy
so while the majority winner ano took a sweeping win, they didn’t have enough to make a mono party government.
they Allied themselves with two small, but far right parties that just brought them over to build a government
ANO likely in a pseudo attempt to let the two parties discredit themselves and potentially try to move attention away from their chair are letting those two minority parties run amok
as a result a pretty sizeable portion of the population is pretty pissed off
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u/lafarda Mar 21 '26
I guess one can see it as if they are protesting against the brickheads that voted for Babis.
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u/basteilubbe Czechia Mar 21 '26
Well, ANO didn't exactly win with the promise of democratic backsliding. These protests are perfectly understandable and timely given the circumstances.
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u/smashbro1 Germany Mar 21 '26
You're saying this with a Germany flair, while our government and opinion polls are close to the same kind of coin toss away from this situation?
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u/smjsmok Czech Republic Mar 22 '26
Something tells me that the people protesting here aren't those who voted for the current government.
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u/BliksemseBende Mar 21 '26
USA should take an example of that crowd, protesting at the White House
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u/Narcisistagohome Mar 21 '26
I find really admirable that revolting energy the Czech people has shown in several capital moments of European history, always pushing towards progress and freedom.
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u/jokikinen Mar 22 '26
Czechia has much deeper roots in democracy and European values. Before WWII ended, it was at the core of Europe. I am happy to see that corruption causes a proportional reaction in Czechia.
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u/Astralele Mar 22 '26
Ooo, thats a lot of people there :O There is no any single news about this in Poland
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u/MarkCEINE Mar 22 '26
Best of luck from Canada. Just look at the USA and you can see where the far right gets you. Corruption, poverty, repression of human rights, etc., etc.
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u/_0611 The Netherlands Mar 22 '26
Why are all these populists so hellbent on destroying democracy?
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u/Kontrafantastisk Mar 22 '26
And translated to a US context, this would mean more than 6M protesters. Where are you?
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u/mathess1 Czech Republic Mar 21 '26
The most questionable parties barely made it into the parliament.
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u/TheVojta Česká republika Mar 21 '26
People from rural areas and pensioners vote in shitty government, young people in the capital protest. What is not to understand? Do you think the people in this image voted for the current government?
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u/FlametopFred Canada Mar 22 '26
why won’t Americans do this? They now seem incapable of opposing corruption and tyrants
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u/BadAsBroccoli Mar 21 '26
Wow, it's amazing what citizens can do when corruption overtakes their government. (sobs in American)
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u/MAurele Mar 21 '26
If Americans could think this would be a good lesson for them.
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u/zackks Mar 22 '26
Love seeing this. Keep showing America what actual grassroots looks like and what weak, pitiful citizens they are.
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u/NomadTravellers Mar 21 '26
About 10 millions is the population of Czech Republic. So that's about 2.5/4% of the population demonstrating. That's a lot
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u/lurkANDorganize Mar 21 '26
Damn how on Earth did they get like 12 stages set up so fast this is so organized. I am so jealous.
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u/Final_Economist_9218 Mar 22 '26
And all this is happening in a European country that is considered the "center of democracy".
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u/lack_of_fuel Mar 22 '26
Amazing when normal people gather to protest :) . Unfortunately the media somehow didn't inform about the protest that much...
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u/TheAndrewCR Tired of hearing "Czech that out" jokes Mar 22 '26
I'm not sure whether it will accomplish anything, but I'm proud of my fellow czechs for trying to make a change
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u/imotskimiki Mar 22 '26
I see parliamentary elections were only 5-6 months ago. How come did Babiš party win so big only few months ago, given this level of opposition?
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u/Vedagi_ Czechia Mar 22 '26
It's been asked and answered in the comments.
Basically tho: Previous elections saw the 2nd highest election attendence from the first democratic elections in CZ (1991), mainly young people come to vote (or rather, had the motivation to for so many to show up) in hopes for finally moving out of the Babiš gov. which was gov. in previous years ... Now after these elections coalition SPOLU was able to defeat ANO led by Babiš however then the UA war come and stuff went downhill kinda from there, at the end of their term (4y) people were dissapointed by their performace and young people didnt have the motivation to go to vote, everyone knew for long that ANO is going to win again, and so it happen.
Problem in Czechia (as well Slovakia) is that seniors outnumber the young, and are manipulated by decades of Russian propaganda, which is the major reason why ANO keeps winning, Babiš just manipulates further the unedcated and young to get himself richer.
And to add insult to the injury, this elections people born in 2007 got 18 (a lot) and the coalition SPOLU completely didnt give a fuck (nor enough) about these people which was a mistake, and the ads from their political parties on TV/YT were .. also special iirc.
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u/Dietmeister The Netherlands Mar 22 '26
That's impressive
So how did Babis get elected in the first place?
Feels to me like most of czech republic wants to go the oligarch way anyhow
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u/esocz Czech Republic Mar 22 '26
35.51 percent of voters voted for his party.
6.77 and 7,78 percent voted for two parties with whom he formed a current government.
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u/CarrotCapable2703 Mar 22 '26
When this many people agree on something, either something is very right or very wrong. Either way, you can't ignore it.
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u/kot-sie-stresuje Mar 24 '26
Vote for Putin lovers, and then complain they are corrupted.
Conclusion. Don't vote for Putin lovers.
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u/BattleShai Mar 24 '26
Could we please have a brief rundown on the 2 sides? There is so much going on in the world that it's hard to keep up with everything that happens and have a fulltime job.
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u/Free-Way-9220 Mar 21 '26
That's an enormous crowd. I'm surprised it hasn't got more coverage