Chairman of the YES movement Andrej Babiš at Wednesday’s extraordinary meeting of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Parliament, which was called by the parties of the outgoing government because of Babiš’s conflict of interests related to the ownership of the Agrofert holding, he declared in plenary, that someone allegedly wants to kill him again. According to him, the Czech media create an atmosphere like the media in Slovakia, and he recalled the assassination of Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico. Regarding the topic of the meeting, he said that Agrofert has become the target of a political fight and the parties of the outgoing government are lying about it, reports TASR in Prague.
„How many times have they tried to kill me. Last week the police were here again, someone wants to kill me again. The media do not even realize that they are creating an atmosphere here that was created by the media in Slovakia. And we know how it ended with Fico. You all know what this is about. Intimidation… It is the result of selected media,” declared Babiš.
S. came to the lectern a picnic basket full of documents, which he gradually placed on the counter. He showed the camera a thick book about Agrofert, which he commented with the words “Agrofert, my child built for 30 years”. In his speech, he listed various things cases related to Agrofert or his person and commented on them. For example, he refuted the fact that he would create some folders for deputies, he also touched on the case of the poisoning of the Bečva river, the subsidy for the Eurasian Eagle’s Nest, and real estate in France.
He emphasized that he does not understand why the future opposition called the meeting, when it is said that he has a clear agreement with the president on how the nominees for the future coalition government will gradually visit him and how he will announce the solution to the conflict of interests. He immediately added that he had none.
According to him, Agrofert became the subject of a political struggle, and the expiring Fial government did nothing else. she was just attacking him. The claim that if the holding does not receive subsidies, it will go bankrupt is according to Babiš, a lie. He added that the share of subsidies in Agrofert’s sales is 0.7 percent. “The bad Agrofert has been siphoning off European budgets for the past 20 years 103 billion crownsof which in the Czech Republic 60 billion crowns, and employs up to 40,000 families“, declared the head of ANO.
After almost an hour and a half, he got to the point the alleged introduction of his son to Crimea. He called it the worst thing that happened in Czech journalism because, according to him, the journalists abused his son. “This was the biggest hyenism… this is something so terrible, maybe my parents will understand me,” said Babiš. When he talked about his son, he cried and had to interrupt his speech for a while. Finally, he also got to the case of his records in the volumes of the State Security. “I never signed anything,” he repeated.
The vice-president of the ANO movement, Alena Schillerová, announced that only Babiš would be part of the emerging government. other MPs from the ANO, SPD and Motorists parties do not plan to speak.
