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    Dud Czech ditched?

    Voters have dumped Babis after Pandora paper and numerous other scandals the wiley Carpatho slovak has slipped , while largest grouping ANO look slated tolose power to a moderate pro western coalition.

    Babis is part of teh old StB (read KGBslme) depsite denilas Corbyn's "alleged "handler Sarckocy and others confirm as did Slovak courts during lustration prozess he's sheer poison.

    Sadly he's still in control of some Czech media as France 24 reports



    Prime Minister Andrej Babis' centrist party on Saturday narrowly lost the Czech Republic's parliamentary election, a surprise development that could mean the end of the populist billionaire's reign in power.


    The two-day election to fill 200 seats in the lower house of the Czech Republic’s parliament took place shortly after the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists reported details of Babis’ overseas financial dealings in a project dubbed the “Pandora Papers.” Babis, 67, has denied wrongdoing.
    With almost all the the votes counted, the Czech Statistics Office said Together, a liberal-conservative three-party coalition, captured 27.8% of the vote, beating Babis' ANO (Yes) party, which won 27.1%.
    In another blow to the populists, another center-left liberal coalition of the Pirate Party and STAN, a group of mayors, received 15.6% of the vote to finish third, the statistics office reported.
    “The two democratic coalitions have gained a majority and have a chance to form a majority government,” said Petr Fiala, Together's leader and its candidate for prime minister.
    Five opposition parties with policies closer to the European Union’s mainstream compared with the populist Babis put aside their differences in this election to create the two coalitions, seeking to oust the euroskeptic prime minister from power.
    The result means “an absolute change of the politics in the Czech Republic,” analyst Michal Klima told Czech public television. “It stabilizes the country’s position in the West camp.”
    “It’s a huge defeat for (Babis),” he added.
    The major anti-migrant and anti-Muslim force in the Czech Republic, the Freedom and Direct Democracy party, finished fourth with 9.6% support.
    Both the Social Democrats and the Communists, the country’s traditional parliamentary parties, failed to win seats in parliament for the first time since the split of Czechoslovakia in 1993.
    Babis has had a turbulent term featuring numerous scandals, but all public polls before the vote had favored his ANO party to win the election.
    “We didn't expect to lose,” Babis said. “We accept that.”
    He still declared the election results “excellent.”
    Prior to the vote, Babis led a minority coalition government of ANO and the Social Democrats in the Eastern European country of 10.7 million people, which is a member of both the European Union and NATO. He has also governed with the support of the maverick Communists.
    The leader of the strongest party usually gets a chance to form a new government. President Milos Zeman didn't immediately comment but previously indicated that he will first appoint the leader of the winning party, not the winning coalition, to try to form a new government, which would be Babis. The two leaders will meet on Sunday.
    “We're the strongest party,” Babis said. “If the president asks me to create a government, I'll open the negotiations about it.”
    Any new government has to win a parliamentary confidence vote to rule, however, and Babis and his potential partner, the Freedom party, don't have enough support for that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by david44 View Post
    Voters have dumped Babis after Pandora paper and numerous other scandals the wiley Carpatho slovak has slipped , while largest grouping ANO look slated tolose power to a moderate pro western coalition.

    Babis is part of teh old StB (read KGBslme) depsite denilas Corbyn's "alleged "handler Sarckocy and others confirm as did Slovak courts during lustration prozess he's sheer poison.

    Sadly he's still in control of some Czech media as France 24 reports



    Prime Minister Andrej Babis' centrist party on Saturday narrowly lost the Czech Republic's parliamentary election, a surprise development that could mean the end of the populist billionaire's reign in power.


    The two-day election to fill 200 seats in the lower house of the Czech Republic’s parliament took place shortly after the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists reported details of Babis’ overseas financial dealings in a project dubbed the “Pandora Papers.” Babis, 67, has denied wrongdoing.
    With almost all the the votes counted, the Czech Statistics Office said Together, a liberal-conservative three-party coalition, captured 27.8% of the vote, beating Babis' ANO (Yes) party, which won 27.1%.
    In another blow to the populists, another center-left liberal coalition of the Pirate Party and STAN, a group of mayors, received 15.6% of the vote to finish third, the statistics office reported.
    “The two democratic coalitions have gained a majority and have a chance to form a majority government,” said Petr Fiala, Together's leader and its candidate for prime minister.
    Five opposition parties with policies closer to the European Union’s mainstream compared with the populist Babis put aside their differences in this election to create the two coalitions, seeking to oust the euroskeptic prime minister from power.
    The result means “an absolute change of the politics in the Czech Republic,” analyst Michal Klima told Czech public television. “It stabilizes the country’s position in the West camp.”
    “It’s a huge defeat for (Babis),” he added.
    The major anti-migrant and anti-Muslim force in the Czech Republic, the Freedom and Direct Democracy party, finished fourth with 9.6% support.
    Both the Social Democrats and the Communists, the country’s traditional parliamentary parties, failed to win seats in parliament for the first time since the split of Czechoslovakia in 1993.
    Babis has had a turbulent term featuring numerous scandals, but all public polls before the vote had favored his ANO party to win the election.
    “We didn't expect to lose,” Babis said. “We accept that.”
    He still declared the election results “excellent.”
    Prior to the vote, Babis led a minority coalition government of ANO and the Social Democrats in the Eastern European country of 10.7 million people, which is a member of both the European Union and NATO. He has also governed with the support of the maverick Communists.
    The leader of the strongest party usually gets a chance to form a new government. President Milos Zeman didn't immediately comment but previously indicated that he will first appoint the leader of the winning party, not the winning coalition, to try to form a new government, which would be Babis. The two leaders will meet on Sunday.
    “We're the strongest party,” Babis said. “If the president asks me to create a government, I'll open the negotiations about it.”
    Any new government has to win a parliamentary confidence vote to rule, however, and Babis and his potential partner, the Freedom party, don't have enough support for that.

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    Not from a stag party perspective, but as a visitor with broader horizons. The capital is fascinating, but to travel much further is an absolute must and a delight to a poorly educated oik like me.

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    If it was over the pandora papers then journalists can say job done. Hopefully others will feel the wrath of voters.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hugh Cow View Post
    If it was over the pandora papers then journalists can say job done. Hopefully others will feel the wrath of voters.
    Acording to news reports the Pandora Papers had an influence . . . after all, a corrupt leader?

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    Needed to be biggish unavoidable news as Babis and his paid "henchmen" an anachrnitic term but he of that apparatchik ilk owns some of even teh qaulity media.

    In old days of Tinker Tailor Switch and bait teh state security apparatusStátní bezpečnost – the secret police in Communist Czechoslovakia.

    StB could almost silence outside news esp to those who did not speak German or English , VOA was jammed as was the BBC,Maggies foreign secretary Welshman Sir Geoffrey Howe took a risk all be it not as large as the Charter 77 (of which I was involved) to have a secret meeting with the illegal opposition, unthinkable today with easy tracking.UK felt and homoured a special pbligation due to teh betrayal and shame of Chamberlains Munich agrreement, teh last moment when Hitler might have been stopped by concerted action, of course Russia and USA would provide no guarantees.

    Of course most young Czechs born since the 1990s velvet revolution can speak foreign languages other than Russian and press freedom is greater than here UK or France,so no longer possible to keep the genie in teh bottle without the rigid Chinese staye firewalls/punishments.

    Babis has interestingly spoken out about the Russian misbeahviour and the arms dump killings which according to Bellingcat are linked to the Salisbury "squad".

    Bellingcat connects the dots between Czech explosion and Bulgaria poisoning – EURACTIV.com

    I have always got on well with Russians however teh new Czar is littl beetr than his KGB elders

    President Vladimir Putin on Monday (26 April) dismissed as “absurd” Prague’s accusations against Moscow after Czech authorities accused the Russian secret services of being behind a deadly arms depot blast in 2014. But the investigative website Bellingcat connected the dots back to Russia.
    In a phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron, Putin “commented on the current state of Russian-Czech relations, emphasising the absurd nature of Prague’s accusations and actions against Russia”, the Kremlin said in a statement.
    Tensions have escalated between the two countries after Prague accused Russian military intelligence earlier this month of being behind the explosion in the east of the Czech Republic, which left two people dead.
    Eastern Europe awakes to Russian covert action threat

    It took seven years to expose that Russia was behind the explosion of an ammunition deposit in 2014 that killed two people in the Czech Republic, and for Bulgaria to realise that the attempted Novichok poisoning of an arms trader …


    Czech police are seeking two men in connection with the blast, along with a second non-fatal explosion in the Czech Republic in 2014.
    The men have also been identified as suspects in the 2018 poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the English town of Salisbury in 2018.
    As the Czech authorities pointed out, the explosion in 2014 was not intended to happen in the Czech Republic, but in Bulgaria. The ammunition was supposed to be transported by Bulgarian arms dealer Emilian Gebrev – a businessman who survived poisoning in 2015 – and sent to Ukraine or Syria.
    Gebrev, his son Hristo and one more person were victims of a poisoning attempt back in 2015 with what turned out to be Novichok, but the prosecution opened an inquiry only in January 2000, following revelations by the investigative website Bellingcat, which found similarities with the Skripal poisoning three years later.
    Bellingcat published another investigative report on Monday supporting the hypothesis that the 2014 explosions in Czechia were part of a longer-term operation of the Russian military intelligence GRU, aimed at disrupting Ukraine’s capabilities to procure weapons and munitions critical to its defense against Russian troops and Russia-sponsored militants in the war in Eastern Ukraine.
    According to Bellingcat, the operation appears to have been initiated shortly after July 2014 when Russian authorities subordinated the disparate Russia-supported militant groups in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine under central control and military supervision of the GRU. The mission, which appears to have been run by the subversion and sabotage sub-unit of GRU’s Unit 29155, included several contiguous operations among which were the explosions at the Vrbetice depots, the assassination attempt on Emilian Gebrev, and – with increasing likelihood – at least one of the three explosions at munition depots in Bulgaria in early to mid-2015.
    This version of events is reportedly corroborated by the overlap of the sabotage team in the Czech and Bulgarian operations; the team members’ contiguous assignments in the two countries; and the links to Gebrev’s company EMCO – an important factor in Ukraine’s defense strategy in 2014 and early 2015 – in both sets of operations. Moreover, telephone records analyzed by Bellingcat show that several members of Unit 29155 communicated actively with Russian military officers deployed to the Donbas, as well as with local militant commanders fighting against the central Kyiv government, in 2014 and 2015.
    Motivation for the attack on the Czech depot
    EMCO confirmed to Bellingcat that Ukraine imported its ammunition in the 120 mm to 152 mm range for Ukraine in the period December 2014 – February 2015, based on a contract signed on 10 November 2014.
    Sources told Belligcat that EMCO was one of only two EU companies that specialized in manufacturing state-of-the-art munitions compatible with Soviet-era weapons, especially in the large-bore (120 mm to 152 mm) range. According to one of the sources, in 2014 there were only two manufacturing plants that produced compatible munitions, and “the other company was under effective Russian control”, leaving EMCO as the only possible foreign-based provider of munitions for Ukraine’s army.
    According to Bellingcat a minimum of six senior GRU undercover agents from Unit 29155 – including its commander and two officers under diplomatic cover – were deployed to Central Europe to facilitate the mission.
    Bulgarian investigators are convinced that on 28 April 2014, one of the GRU officers applied a Novichov-type substance to the door handles of cars used by Gebrev and his production director, Mr. Tahchiev. Emilian Gebrev’s son is likely to have been exposed to the toxin through incidental contact with his father’s car on that day. Investigators have not yet discovered how the toxin was brought into the country.
    At least two of the participants, Alexander Mishkin and Anatoliy Chepiga, received Russia’s highest state award – Hero of Russia – and at least four team members received free apartments from the government in the immediate aftermath of the operation, further underpinning the importance of this mission to Russian authorities.







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    ^Nice to have an update on post Cold War activities in the former Warsaw Pact region. My historical interests and knowledge since the Berin wall came down is sketchy at best.

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    Quote Originally Posted by david44 View Post
    StB could almost silence outside news esp to those who did not speak German or English
    When my parenst were stationed in Prague during the 70s I was in boarding school in Germany . . . Being 'far-west' German (Bonn/Köln) I'd take a train to meet them near the ČSSR border and drive to their home in Prague for the holidays. The closer you were to the German border the more antennas were facing west to get West-German TV . . . most Czechs/Slovaks can speak German so this was their main source of real news.

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    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    When my parenst were stationed in Prague during the 70s I was in boarding school in Germany . . . Being 'far-west' German (Bonn/Köln) I'd take a train to meet them near the ČSSR border and drive to their home in Prague for the holidays. The closer you were to the German border the more antennas were facing west to get West-German TV . . . most Czechs/Slovaks can speak German so this was their main source of real news.
    Indeed
    The StB did run a partuclarly nasty honey trap with a fake border nea rH Dvorsto in the seemingly "softer " non NATO border with teh former Russian occupied MuhlerViertal of Upper Austria which I know very well.

    Dissidents who thought they were in the safety of an Austrian Gastohof were debriefed asked to name others, all teh time runby KGB/StB a few KM from teh real frontier near Sandling Teich and the city of Freistadt.

    There is in that area a wonderful Freimauer Museum where i was surprised to see Peter Sellers in his apron!
    The lovely Schloss Rosenau may be open for some, prepare to shake a shekel or fnny handshae for admittance, I was in a movie ther e but another story.



    Interestingly the shock of ANO losing sent Czechia President into hospital
    Of course we are all aware that discharged Zeman may also be hazourdous.
    Like Germany there is no one party with overall control

    Tabloid Blesk is all over it
    iDNES.cz ? s n?mi v?te v?c

    The links work TD cannot show the Czech caracters correctly here's teh aptly Named AHA's fron page

    Th tabloid keener on titz n bums than hard news teh Bohemian "Sun"

    The photo is like my shocked Czechmate learning I have 2 wives and seven dwarves from NSW to SIAM

    She wasn't much of goer even when young but her pop had part of a brewery which seemed like a good idea at the time.
    Old saying if you wanna know what the gal will be like in 30 years look at teh Momma , Like Hemingway I shoulda looked at Granma

    Dud Czech ditched?-dita-jpg

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    Btw, very nice to go from Dubček to Dud Czech . . .

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