Andrej Babiš (yes), according to surveys, the most serious bidder for the post (old) new Czech Prime Minister, on Friday he started his tour in regions in the capital of South Bohemia.
The long -time Czechobile fair Earth The Breadwinner suffers from the fact that politicians use it as a stage whenever the elections are approaching. This year it was no different.
Elections to the Czech Parliament will take place in more than a month, on 3 and 4 October.
Babiš, like the current Prime Minister Petr Fiala (ODS) and the leader of the Motorist Sobe, Filip Turek, took advantage of the fact that crowds of people from all over the country have traditionally flowed into the city. However, he moved his main show from Budějovice exhibition center directly to Samson’s fountain on Přemysl Otakar II.
The YES movement attracted families with children on Friday afternoon. They could enjoy a rich dinosaur amusement park, dominated by an inflatable tyrannosaurus Rex, towering high above the YES movement stalls with promotional objects and print materials.
Andrej Babiš and other leaders of the group leader in the October parliamentary elections were thus performed under the supervision of extinct reptiles, which have always symbolized outdated and rooted structures in politics. Now, however, Andrej Babiš, the leader of the movement, which was created almost 15 years ago as anti -system, is trying to win the Prime Minister’s chair for the third time and no longer tries to convince people that he is not a politician.
Babiš in surveys clearly leads
According to the latest SMEM survey published on Sunday for CNN Prima News by YES, YES won 32.7 percent of the votes, which is more than ten percent more than a coalition together (ODS, KDU-ČSL, Top 09).
So far, Babiš is convinced that he will be appointed Prime Minister. It is speculated that President Petr Pavel may hesitate to appoint his appointment for the indictment of fraud in subsidies in the Stork’s Nest case, and instead he may prefer Babiš’s right hand, former Minister Karel Havlíček. He is on the candidate list as a shadow premiere. One citizen asked the former Prime Minister. “Well, he should,” Babiš replied a little shy tone. “I think he will name me, his last statements indicate that,” he added.
On Friday afternoon in the capital of the South Bohemian region Babiš welcomed about a hundred citizens who came to take a picture of it and get his autograph. Only once someone from the crowd shouted “State Security!” Or “Go home, we don’t want you here!”
Babiš: I talked to Trump five times
This was the first stop in the YES tour of the YES tour with the subtitle “For a Better Life”. The aim is to provide people with a preliminary view of what the party offers in the elections, before it will officially present its election program on September 4.
“We have a realistic program. We do not promise you a balanced budget, we do not promise you to cancel the Senate,” said Babiš in front of the audience, which was mostly middle -aged and older people. “We are the only ones who have experienced it, we know how the world works, I talked to Trump five times,” he said.
Along with two former ministers (trade and transport and industry) Karol Havlíček, former health minister Adam Vojtěch and former Minister of Education, Robert Plag promised to intervene against the gray economy and spend money and invest money in education, health and digitization.
“Our government will be ready if you choose us and will approve the basic things that will improve your life at your first meeting. We have everything thought out and we are definitely the only one who can get to the office tomorrow and finally start to manage our country in your favor,” Babiš said.
Babiš owes me money
Zdeněk Novotný, 69-year-old, also came to the event. Even before the official start of the meeting, he got into a stormy discussion with Karle Havlíček.
“Babiš missed me,” he explained to the reporter Aktuality.sk, why he came to confront the so -called shadow premiere. “I told him he owes me money. He owes me money because the Chamber of Deputies has been blocking everything for four years. The opposition is blocking the adoption of new laws, anything. The House costs three million a day and he owes me money. He, Babis, everyone,” he complained.
He had no sympathy for politicians on the square in České Budějovice. “They are people who want to get to power. What they wrote in their program is ridiculous. Mrs. (Alena) Schillerová (parliament for YES) wants to return to Paris Street, where she once rented an apartment, Mr Havlíček was a minister in two ministries and so on.
How does he explain such a high support of the Babiš’s Movement in surveys? “Look at the booth there – they give free pens, nonsense, stupid, pensioners come and say, ‘Jesus, it’s you, let’s take a picture together … I think they have a great influence on old people when they promise pensioners to“ give you more ”and who knows what else. They simply affect older people, it is a shame. ”
Babiš: Cocaine at Pekarová
Babiš himself refused this accusation against Aktuality.sk, saying that it is only a presentation of the results of their work: “They are our publications, our electoral materials, so we will not sell them, not? We are the only political group that put on paper what we did in politics.
When asked about obstruction, he referred to the words of Petr Fiala in 2016, when the then leader of the opposition obstruction as an ordinary democratic instrument. “Obstruction is the legitimate right of the opposition, said Prime Minister Fiala. And it is not obstruction, we have always spoken things in the same way. The last time I said the media, which of course will not publish the media, cocaine in the toilet lady (chairwoman of the Czech House Marketa) Pekarova. act. “
Babiš hinted at the January 2023 incident when police security guards’ cocaine traces in toilets for men in the Chamber of Deputies, located near the office of the chairwoman of the Lower Chamber of Markéta Pekar-Adam (Top 09). Given the minimum amount of drugs, however, the police did not consider this act as a crime or an offense.
In the Dave around Babiš, someone warned the chairman YES that the current Prime Minister Fiala would come to České Budějovice on September 1. “If it comes, it will get it,” another citizen commented.
Give us 50 percent and it’s equipped
Others came to Babiš to encourage the most of the elections with the extreme right -wing SPD movement Tomia Okamura, which, according to the survey, finished third with 11 percent. “I hope Babiš will come together with the moment,” said one of the men in a row for signatures. “I have to say it right in front of him, you have to connect with the moment, otherwise it will not work,” he repeated, and the question hung in the air, but Babis didn’t answer.
Only this: “My answer is … we will see after the elections. The biggest mistake of politicians after the revolution was that they did not succeed in the United States.”
He repeated the same in the public discussion: “We are not yet making a government. We haven’t won yet, we have the same preferences as in 2021 (YES Movement then ended the second behind the coalition along with the difference of tenths of a percent – note ed.), So go to vote, give us 50 percent and it is, ”he said with a laugh, and received a stormy applause.
At the same time, however, he clearly distanced itself from the current government coalition together and mayors and independent, who has already begun to discuss post -election cooperation without the YES movement. “I can guarantee that we will not join any five -coalition. I can say that here,” he said.
In his speech, Babiš several times mentioned US President Trump and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. “You know who has the highest share of GDP spent on family policy in the EU? Hungary,” he explained and reminded him of how well the Visegrad Four works, where, together with Orban and representatives of Poland and Slovakia, the national interests of Central European countries against Brussels defend.
He also refused to accept the euro, which he considered “the loss of sovereignty” and added that most countries, including Slovakia, today, does not meet the basic criteria for the debt limit in relation to GDP.
War in Ukraine and assistance to refugees from the affected country were often mentioned. For example, one voter came to Babiš complained: “I just want to say that the Ukrainians are taking us many jobs. My daughter wanted to find a brigade and told her: Not Ukrainian, bad luck.”
Babiš pointed out that he and his movement were the only ones who rushed to help when a war broke out in Ukraine. “Then it turned out that there are people who do not need our help and abuse the system, and of course it has to change. So I hope that Trump, Zelenskyj and Putin will reach the agreement and then all those who do not work here, do not pay health and social insurance and do not have the same obligations, they will not be able to stay here,” he said.
Voter: I had the best life under Babiš
One of the voters who came to support the YES movement was 67-year-old Dana Rynešová. “Under Mr. Babiš we had a better life than under this government. They raised the prices of everything, food, kindergarten charges for my grandson … Fiala did not fulfill anything he promised. Nothing has changed in four years, health care is bad, everything is bad,” she said clearly.
“Yes, it is for ordinary people and Mr. Fiala is for those on top. And everything goes to Ukraine. There are single mothers who do not have money, ordinary people collect money for disabled children, and how much the government gave? No one gave anything.
What about the scandals that have been chasing Andrej Babiš for years, such as the indictment in the case of alleged fraud in subsidies for the construction of a Stork’s Farm Nest? It is a witch hunt against Babiš, said Rynešová with reference to the current ODS scandal, in which the Ministry of Justice led by Pavel Blažek (ODS) accepted Bitcoins worth billion crowns from Tomáš Jiřikovský, who, according to the police, is guilty of money laundering. “Babiš’s strange nest has been said since he’s in the government. They need to get it to his knees. But what all the theft and everything else that this government is doing? Is that okay?”
She ended her affection for Babiš with the memory of the old days: “We experienced communism and it was difficult, but I’m glad I grew up for the Communists. Because we had what we needed. Today you have everything, you have food, drink, fruits, vegetables, but who can afford it?”
