Czech anti-government protesters mark anniversary of revolution
“Some of our politicians do not understand why we are here, others do not want to spoil the holidays,” Benjamin Roll, vice chairman of Million Moments, told Reuters news agency.
“The struggle for freedom and democracy never ends.”
The ‘biggest protest since the fall of Communism’ in Prague called for the resignation of the ‘Czech Trump’
Mr Babis, whose ANO party continues to lead the polls, also said he “can’t understand” the point of the protests against him.
But Million Moments’ leaders have now issued Mr Babis with an ultimatum – either he fulfils their demands or they will continue to stage protests.
Mikulas Minar, one of the group’s organisers, told Czech broadcaster CT24 that any future protests would be “more creative”.
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Mikulas Minar
Thirty years after the key-jangling marches that ushered in the Velvet Revolution and freed Czechoslovakia from communism, the young people of Prague are back on the streets almost every week (Oliver Moody writes). This time the targets of the protests are Milos Zeman and Andrej Babis, the president and prime minister, who are accused of undermining the rule of law and allowing corruption to flourish.
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“The painted crosses that appeared on Monday in Old Town Square in Prague, the Czech capital, were the work of A Million Moments for Democracy, a group of activists who oppose Prime Minister Andrej Babis and have organized large street protests against him. The crosses, numbering more than 20,000, represented the nearly 25,000 people who have died from the virus in the country — a huge number in a nation with a population of about 10 million.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/23/world/europe/covid-czech-republic-hungary-poland.html