Cyril Svoboda he said that fellow party members had not yet personally read anything to him and reminded that according to the statutes he should be given the opportunity to defend his positions. The power to vote on the expulsion of a member from the party rests with the national People’s Committee, which should meet at a regular meeting on Thursday, April 25.
Svoboda later told ČTK that he does not want to leave KDU-ČSL because he is not in conflict with the membership. He also stated that expelling someone from the party was the dictator Stalin’s method.
“The Presidium of the KDU-ČSL distances itself from Cyril Svoboda’s activities, which have long been incompatible with the political direction of the party. The Presidium of the KDU-ČSL calls on Cyril Svoboda to consider his membership in the party, or actions that harm the party, in view of his many media statements, in view of his recent involvement with ANO chairman Andrej Babiš and in view of the non-respect of the resolution of the KDU-ČSL Presidium from 2021 , he didn’t. The decision on possible expulsion according to the statutes belongs to the national committee of the KDU-ČSL,” the People’s Board of Directors said in a statement.
Bartošek: The photo from the table with Putin also bothers me
People’s Deputy Minister Hladík on Sunday, he said that he does not consider Svoboda to be a people’s party for a long time. “His long-term views and direction do not correspond to the politics of the People’s Party and I would expect him to be no longer a member of the party,” he said.
“I am not in the least a supporter of Cyril Svoboda within the KDU-ČSL. The photos of him sitting at the same table with Putin bother meas well as his cooperation with Russia with paid propaganda websites,” Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives Jan bartošek (KDU-ČSL) told Novinky.cz.
Cyril Svoboda at the same table with Vladimir Putin | Reprophoto Sputnik
However, according to Svoboda, Hladík’s statements to him are more indicative of the decline of the KDU-ČSL and trying to extricate themselves from responsibility for the drop in preferences with pseudo-causes. According to the election model of the agency Median from March, the People’s Party would get three or 3.1 percent of the votes. A threshold of five percent is set for entry into the House of Representatives.
Svoboda was the chairman of the People’s Party from 2001 to 2003 and also from 2009 to 2010. In the past, he held the positions of Minister of the Interior and Foreign Affairs. Hladík mainly blames him for his views, which he considers to be pro-Russian. He doesn’t like Svobodov either an interview with the Voice of Europe news website, which the BIS found was run by pro-Russian businessmen with the aim of influencing the European elections. According to Hladík, Svoboda should have found out the background of the website’s operation in advance.
