When it took place on Monday, there was a meeting at the Castle, at which together with President Petr Pavlo was supposed to discuss this hot topic, three seats at the negotiating table remained empty: And that seats from the opposition ANO. It got a lot of criticism for it – even after a few days in the studio. According to Karel Havlíček, however, unauthorized. “We acted, but it was nI have been told that the government will enforce everything anyway even without our consent. We saw no reason to continue,” Havlíček responded verbal outburst Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies.
Is there really a lack of constructive opposition?
“It just proved that we simply do not have a constructive opposition,Pekarová Adamová stated after Havlíček’s words and continued her reproaches. “They don’t have their own solutions. If they had, we wouldn’t have to deal with this right now. After all, they could have brought proposals themselves in the past period,” she noted.
Havlíček defended himself by saying that they are consistent in their opinions and that he would expect it to be the same with the government. “If in November 2022 the government or Prime Minister Petr Fiala (ODS) said that they would not raise the retirement age, we would be in agreement. But they, the government doesn’t know what will happen in a monthlet alone in 30 years, with which he is now wielding when creating the pension reform,” continued Havlíček in a sharp discussion.
She got something in return from Pekarová for that words about mantras, which ANO says he keeps repeating. “It bothers me that nsomeone is always running away from responsibility,Adamová Pekarová lamented.
Fiala gave a clear signal at the convention
It was to be expected that the studio would hear a reminder of the speech of the Prime Minister and the head of the ODS at the party congress, where he said unequivocally that the government will push through the pension reform despite the opposition’s comments. This is what led the YES movement to decide that will not make the current government coalition a mere staff. Proceedings due to the announced positions, they consider it unnecessary, because they are already decided.
“We want to act, but it is our government’s responsibility. We therefore respect that the YES movement does not want to participate in such decision-making,“said Pekarová Adamová.
Havlíček reflected this again. ANO underwent negotiations and gave up only when it became clear that there was no chance of reversing the decision. “We attended the first meeting – we were correct, polite, constructive. But the Prime Minister still he let out several timesthat anyway everything as proposed will be enforced. Regardless of us. So we won’t just do bushes,he said.
In that context, Pekarová noted that both Havlíček and Alena Schillerová had defined themselves only after Andrej Babiš returned from vacation. “You probably are they had to go to the carpetright?” you dug.
A flood after us?
In addition to the already mentioned words about bushes, there was another expression – and that was the sentence: The flood is after us. It was first uttered by Markéta Pekarová Adamová in the address of the ANO movement..
„No, pOtopu, after all, the ODS government, which is now sitting in a coalition with you, she assumed already in 2010. She also claimed that she wouldn’t be on pensions, but she didn’t address it. We can assure you that we will not stand in the corner and shuffle our feet, as you say, Mrs. Pekarová,” said Havlíček after the moderator asked whether, if ANO wins the next election, it will cancel the current proposed pension reform.
“It’s not a reform, but even as the president says, it is not reform. My we will not light the coalition on how it wants to turn our country into a country of working old peopleas my colleague Alena Schillerová says,” added the ANO vice-chairman, adding that this pension “reform” would it was definitely revised during the ANO government. According to him, it is necessary to talk about how to get money into the system with the next pillar – a not to employ people into old age.
“What will happen when those old people become unemployable? Will they be equally dependent on money from the state? Let’s not dig trenches between the young and older generations – let’s not say that those who are about to retire or already have, must resign themselves to the standard of living in old age, for which they have worked all their lives. Let’s not say that they are taking money from those young people who will retire in a number of years“, warned Havlíček.
At the end of the first block of the program, both political opponents reacted to the resignation of Minister Helena Landšádlová (TOP 09). Even on this issue, as expected, they did not find a common opinion.
