They were one of the first pirate parties in Europe IIRC, that formed back around early 2000s around the computer hacker/hippie kind of social progressivism (think people like Richard Stallman) , which the video points out well - the pirate in the slogan had to do with media piracy, after all this was the era of DMCA. After many years, they actuallly got elected but didn't seem to have delivered much of their ideals....
@@petrsvetnicka7620 My bad! I remember hearing about pirates a few years earlier than that, but it might just have been foreign movements, and anyways, the call to found such a party is indeed from 2009
I'm French and it's scary how I feel most of European country are facing the exact sames problems We are so differents and yet so close at the same time, hold on my Czechs brothers 🤝
Tato země ,,přežila" komouše, aby nakonec jeden dělal prezidenta, z toho blba Fialy už máme jenom srandu, brzo odejde a bude klid. Jenom je škoda že se tady neprovozuje trest smrti.
Here in Czechia, trying to pass real changes that aren't soft solutions and not leaving all the tough decisions on the future governments is basically self sabotage.
@@tonymarik1649 Maybe, but i'm still glad it was them and not Babiš leading us since 2021. I think they could do a lot better after 2025 (if things stabilize and the economy can grow again), but we won't get to see it.
Sorry but their economical policy is just not good. They proved us that cutting spending and austerity is worse way of handling crisis than spending more - neighbour countries went different path, for example Polish goverment spend a lot of money in order to defend economy from postpandemic crisis, and thanks to that our economy recovered quickly and Return to growth. Keynesian spending > austerity measures.
I can't believe it. You guys actually improved your pronunciation issues concerning slavic languages significantly. Th only issue being Kalousek's name, with the "ou" being pronounced simply as the o in the word "mole". But overall, a much better job, keep it up.
I agree, it has improved a massive amount! There are still some other small mistakes here, but Czech pronounciation is hard for a British guy, so I shouldn’t dwell on them and instead I’m happy to see the progress!
While this video is correct and well made, one point is missing: generally, Czechs have deep mistrust for authorities deeply rooted in them and no government in recent history has really been popular.
@@firstlast1932 Courts? lol I don't know anybody trusting our courts of law, when all medialized cases are about murderes or rapists getting the lowest possible punishment people are not happy.
One small, but important correction: Babiš WASN'T pulled out of the register of Communist police informants. He struck a deal with Fico's government (fellow corrupt authoritarians) in Slovakia that ended a series of court cases, in which Babiš was suing various Slovakian institutions in order to get his name pulled out of the records. The courts didn't reach any definitive conclusion, but Babiš and his name is still present in the records and historians from Slovakian archives still agree and has agreed for years that Babiš indeed was a Communist police informant. Not to mention he admitted it 12 years ago himself in a TV interview.
I am pretty sure he is still maintaining his commie connections. They never disappeared, they just went undercover and now they’re emerging. You can clearly see this in Slovakia and Hungary.
it's a lie, Babiš did not struck a deal with Fico's government but with the Ministry of the Interior for the reason that the Slovak side was lacking evidence and decided that it was better to come to an agreement because it would probably lose the court case based on 2 analysis. One was made by law firm and second was done by a judge of the Constitutional Court. As for the the comments he made 12 years ago in Czech TV show (type Kraus - Babis) He stated 2 times he wasn't an agent... And when he is talking about making reports of the foreigners his division traded with is taken out of the context of the entire conversation.
@@Rinsemachine well thats still wont change the fact that he will be in slovaks archives written down as agent. As one of the employees of archives stated, court has no power over archives, its against their constitution to erase anyone from archives, so no matter how would court decided, it would not change anything. Plus archives were not even part of the dispute not as witness or defendant, so by law, there could not have been any conclusion towards it.
@@TheWintythe most important thing is, that the court decided nothing. Babiš just struck a deal with the ministry to make the problem go away assuming no one potentially voting for him will know the difference or even care . The assumption unfortunately is mostly correct.
There are some misleading information is your statement. Babiš did not dispute that he was listed in the registers of communist police informants. He was clearly registered there and he actually confirmed this. The subject of the dispute is that Babiš claims that he was listed in this way without his knowledge and against his will. It could be created a files on any citizen of Czechoslovakia in the registers of _state security_ (state intelligence) even if person did not agree to it. Now the Slovak Ministry of the Interior has given a conciliatory agreement that it actually acknowledges that Babiš was listed there even though he did not ask for it and did not want it.
The unpopularity of the Czech government reflects a deeper issue than policy failures or poor communication-it’s about a profound disconnect with the Czech soul. Our history, defined by centuries of foreign domination, has taught us to approach authority with skepticism. From the Habsburgs to the Soviets, power has often been distant, self-serving, and dismissive of the people’s needs. Czechs value fairness, pragmatism, and humility, and when these are absent in leadership, trust collapses quickly. Many feel that the government governs for the approval of Brussels or Berlin rather than addressing the everyday struggles of Czechs. Rising inflation, inequality, and a general sense of insecurity create fertile ground for frustration. Policies that might look good on paper often feel unfair or detached from reality. But this discontent isn’t just about the government-it’s about the broader context in which it operates. Czech society is caught in a perfect storm of disinformation, media manipulation, and political stagnation. Our media landscape is heavily influenced by oligarchs who often prioritize their own interests over public service. Instead of informing and uniting, the media frequently amplifies divisions and feeds mistrust. This is compounded by the flood of disinformation from foreign actors like Russia, who exploit our societal fractures to sow chaos and undermine faith in democracy. From conspiracy theories to outright lies, these campaigns aim to erode trust in institutions and polarize the population further. The result is a vicious cycle: a government that struggles to communicate effectively, a media that often prioritizes profit or influence over truth, and foreign disinformation that magnifies every fault line. In this environment, even well-intentioned policies are met with skepticism or outright hostility. The Czech soul is resilient and pragmatic. We don’t expect miracles, but we demand sincerity, fairness, and leadership that serves the people-not foreign interests, media moguls, or political elites. Until our leaders and institutions understand this and address the root causes of mistrust-including disinformation and media bias-the gap between government and citizens will only widen. Trust can be rebuilt, but it requires transparency, humility, and a commitment to the values that truly matter to the Czech people.
Sometimes I wonder if it is even possible to give honest and fair information now. Surprisingly, honesty is there somewhere at the beginning, more often than it seems, but disproportionately more ads are clicked if it is presented in the most controversial way possible. Then it is enough for the propaganda and the fifth column to join in...
It is easy to put the blame on foreign countries. But didn't your own government make Czechs more susceptible to foreign interference by not prioritizing national interests?
@@Hilariusgamer yeah. MOST of them are not evil. they just fucking suck. Fiala saying that he feels like getting 30 % in the next election while polling barely 13 at the time is so stupid
Just a small correction - Bartoš (Pirate Party) really didn't deliver when it comes to the digitalization of construction permit system BUT it's also important to mention that ODS Party from the SPOLU coalition also played a part in that because they basically sabotaged it. :P Investigative journalists found out that a "company" (with like three employees) connected to one of the members of ODS was making official complaints to slow down the digitalization on purpose. The company complained that the selection process (to pick the company which would help make a new digital system for this purpose) was unfair even though they literally couldn't develop the system because they have next to none employees & have been inactive for quite some time. I really tried to like the current government but I can't stand Fiala for firing Bartoš for "incompetence." He knows very well what his friends from ODS have done.
Yeah and it is also sad that Bartoš didn't talk about this openly. He didn't have to be fired, he could finish the implementation. And also logically he already made something and the company that was making it still exists so they could even finish it under the new supervision and it wouldn't even be impossible to use the new unfinished system alongside the old one as a temporary solution. But the problem is that Bartoš chose this contract because it was way cheaper than other options. And the other options were contracts given to the corrupt friend of the ODS party with very bed terms for the state. So they didn't like that Bartoš was actually trying to cut them off an do something the right way. They had to sabotage him so the corruption could continue. Now all the work Bartoš did is going to be scrapped and the system will be made from the ground up by the evil company with worse conditions for the state and it will be much more expensive. Beautiful
That's a cope. The truth is, Bartoš is just as terminally inapt as the rest of them (including cooperation with corrupt, immoral people like Hřib, or by employing political extremists in his inner circle); the only difference is that he wasn't as shrewd/politically experienced to see the backstab that was being prepared for him (while ODS has been doing stuff like that since the early 90s). Worse, he really went above and beyond to help ODS remove him from office.
Short versions: Pirates were right, ODS are still "godfathers" even after they got rid of people around Klaus. As a Pirate voter, I admit that Pirates screwed it and I don't think they were supposed to leave coallition, but there is something suspitious about how ODS behaves and it was always there.
@@Pidalin Yeah ... "As pirate voter"... Basically say everything you need about your impartiality. Pirates screwed it up solely. If those issues were there they would and SHOULD present them in advance, but they did not. Now they are just doing what they did since last PS election. Cry and kick around themselves. Government is obliged to inform its subject i.e. voters about processes they make and why they are like that. Minister is basically manager and he failed in transparent management which is one of two main pirate "brands". Failure in transparency and failure in digitalisation. What a pity I kind of rooted for them (and used to vote for them 12 years ago - during times when they were more centrist and did not have social policies). Now they showed their incompetency.
As Czech who doesnt care a crap about our politics, you made me click on this video and actually watch this crazy situation we are in. Im even surprised that someone who doesnt live in this country takes so much time and effort trying to make sense of this mess. Thank you for that!
@@by_bloodSame. Wanna start a party with me actually? Petition of a 1000 is all it takes in regards to people, and also Plans, I am developing those in as much Sectors of Real life as possible. So hopefully. we can have morality, safety, ecology, economical safety, good lifestyle. Understanding lifestyle that would push us above even USA in terms of mentality. I am pushing for ideas of COF-999 chemical research to make combustion cars Legal an Ecological. Albeit I am no researcher or Chemics student, I would apprecite knowledge of COF-999 existing. Also. The morals are in my video.
Maybe if you and your kind would care, country would not be in deep shit. If I was in charge, elections would be mandatory and with test of common knowledge and critical thinking so more clever people would have more powerful votes to safe country from Kremlin sheep.
Starostové and TOP 09 are swapped in the seat distribution at the beginning. TOP 09 can only dream about having 33 seats. To be fair, SPOLU coalition only exists to keep TOP 09 and KDU-ČSL in chamber since many predictions say neither of those 2 parties will reach the 5% threshold. No big hate intended, it's juat a fact.
This is a very accurate view on the Czech politics? Do you have a native Czech writer for this? If not that you have done an outstanding job making sense of out sh*tshow
Oversimplification. But people are indeed very unhappy. I didn't vote for the SPOLU coalition, but even though at first I was aligned with what they said they'll do, they turned out they act oblivious to any criticism and it was pretty much downhill for the past six months. I don't want to vote for ANO, because their policy of giving money to anyone who cries loud enough at the cost of lending and squeezing money from outside will bankrupt our country in the long run (despite now being very anti-EU, Babiš and his companies took advantage of the EU subsidies, even if he doesn't want to admit his ownership of the companies and the misappropriation of EU subsidies was promptly swept under the rug), SPOLU promised to be better, more transparent and fair than ANO and failed. Now it even seems like the old ODS thing of having powerful friends whose companies get the government deals is still very much alive. The housing digitalisation, for instance, had been planned to cost four times as much, but Pirates found a cheaper option that would cut off friends of the ODS, but the problem was they did it too late to meet the deadline, also it coincided with major changes in the housing law, which sparked problems in the housing departments in city councils across the country. Pirates didn't communicate well, and until they failed at the most recent elections, they didn't voice any discontent with whatever was happening behind closed doors. And when it came out, they acted like children and resorted to name calling. They all are turning out to be hypocrites, that's what's the most frustrating thing, there really isn't an option of a competent party with long term plans and concrete ideas how to solve the current issues and modernize our country, which is drowning in 90s style bureaucracy. Another correction - the weed decriminalisation (technically new legal system for 'less' harmful psychoactive substances that is neither complete prohibition nor totally unregulated market that anyone including children could access, the instalment of which was mainly triggered by overdoses on kratom and HHC) is still underway, even now that Pirates are out of the government. The main problem is Pirates are seen as junkies, while people from other parties claiming to be anti-drug have been caught with cocaine and such. The Gay marriage initiative is seen as failure by liberal voters, because it didn't manage to fully equalize the status of 'registered partnership' with marriage, in terms of the range of rights. The new version will extend some of the rights. There were obstructions by conservative politicians and certain Christian organisations (funny, in a mainly secular society). I think we have much bigger problems, yet we instead waste time arguing why the other side is mentally ill, or neo-marxist, instead of focusing on solutions.
The general stuff he got right. Missed lot of stuff about how current government heavily targets Babiš. Passing law meant against him, silencing him and etc. Babiš used to be a great politician, but since he became prime minister, it went down hill. Becoming more populistic. But even that said, in his last two terms, excluding covid, he and his political party did great. When he was financial minister, we actual had plus budget. He has huge support due to lot of his good decision, it is true that decent amount of his voters are old people, but majority are 30-50. Meanwhile current government got lot of young voters on nice promises, which none of them they kept, they promised they wont raise taxes and reduce government spending, they raised taxes twice and government spending increased. That pissed people the most. They didn't fulfil ANY of this pre election promises, which is impressive how you fail that hard, but also sad. They are the worst government Czech Republic ever had. And they still believe they did a great job, which is insane. Czech Republic has in its constitution guaranteed free speech, yet this government made ministry to fight "disinformation," that means they prosecute anyone who goes against what government deems wrong. Fortunately they soften up their approach, maybe due to election coming up soon and they don't need anymore bad rep. But there are still people in jail for what they said. Which is insane. And for our president, he is a green head. He used to be agent of communist party, before socialistic regime gave up. He swapped coats really quick into NATO, so that is why people don't trust him at all. On top of it he is just a huge yes man for current government and he will be for the next as well. He is coward, he says he doesn't like and disagrees with laws which are passing, but he never VETOS anything. Sure Zeman was rough and not really great as visual representation of a head of state, but he was, in his first term, honest and not just some useless muppet. Now we have nice visual presenting president, but as politician he doesn't exist. If I compare Miloš Zeman to something, he is Country bumpkin with straight head. And that makes Petr Pavel Impotent playboy. I never voted for Babiš, but this year I went over our political scene since 1990, and I have to say, best performing government was ANO+CSSD, so I will give ANO another chance. Covid is over and they chance to show that they can do it. And the worst political choice since 1990 was and still is consistently ODS, they always do so much damage to economy. Absolute chaos in their decision, appointing incompetent people in posts, they definitely SHOULDNT ever occupy.
9:03 Slovakia confirmed, not Czech Republic, that Babiš wasn't knowingly an informant for STB (secret police). But he was informant, he stated this in TV himself couple of years ago. And his statement in TV talkshow even suggested that he was aware of this.
You should add it was Slovakia currently led by a pro-Russian prime minister Fico who has recently been featured on a famous Russian propaganda TV show.
@@TeacherZdenek sure Fico is "pro-Russian" yet signs anything PRO USA that comes in ... Fico plays all sides to get the most amount of money to steal. He is not PRO any side, he is PRO his own money. On the other hand, current czech government is very PRO- USA, pro usa leftist shiat and so on - ideas that are results of how bad USA and world now has it. What countries need is politicians that are PRO THEIR COUNTRY, not PRO USA or PRO EU or PRO RUSSIA or anti of any of these.
Slovensko nic takového nepotvrdilo, ale uzavřelo smír na základě politického příkazu, kde to odůvodnili tak, že kdyby se Babiš se Slovenskem soudil, možná by vyhrál. Soud o ničem nerozhodl a nebýt u moci Babišův kamarád Fico, tak takový smír nikdy uzavřen nebyl. Babiš byl estébák a sám to přiznal u toho Krause. Není o čem debatovat :))
You absolutely can be an informant without knowing it. Any individual, who, knowingly or not, provides information to an operative of an agency, is considered to be an informant.
I see that you improved a lot in knowledge of Czech politics and pronunciation. This video is well made with enough context that's needed. Great job 👍🏻 Only one thing: since you're renaming names of the parties and coalitions in your infographics (ex. Spolu -> Together) you can also at 3:47 rename ,,Přísaha" to "Oath".
It's difficult to articulate how distant and uninterested the Pětikoalice ("Five-coalition") feels to the average voter. They seem to be unable to communicate their policies to the general public, admit failure, recognize the situations they are in. The Czech feel a deep distrust towards elites, which makes for a fertile ground for populists. Pretty much everyone expects ANO to win the next elections.
It's not about articulation. The just blatantly lie, often do complete opposite of what they promised and also try to smear and silence any opposition or disent, despite the fact that censorship is prohibited by law. They sound more and more like late 80's communists, hence meme videos about Fiala and Jakes.
Co je větší populismus, než slibovat německé platy za pět let? A ten ,,ftípek" o nezvedání daní a tečka, další je taky velmi ,,výživný" nebudeme zvedat věk pro odchod do důchodu a tečka. Hošane, kdyby za každou lež Fiala dostal facku, tak dnes už nedýchá.
Word "Populist" is thrown around so much that anybody who joins politics now is populist. Reincarnaited Hitler born in Czech Republic would be called populist cause he would be appealing to some. Since ANO got in power in the past they showed in numbers how they can handle country finances. Until Covid came they were doing outstanding work. But COVID fckd up most of the countries. SPOLU used this situation and did get in power by rigging elections only to do fck all. Babis is much closer to Czech citizen then any member of SPOLU. He is basic human. That is what we needed. That is why he hated old parties acting like Mafia and rulers. That is why we had secure country for so many years. Not some pro active EU-woke licker who is trying to please all and be a Hero by sacrificing its own citizens. We needed old grumpy person passive to problems of other countries only wanting benefit for its own. That is why his firm was succesful and why country would be succesful under his leadership. Now we put mentally disordered people who cant manage their own on pedestal. Tell people how to live and deal with their own problems while pulling chair from under their feet.
What are you talking about? Our glorious government fulfills the plan at 93%, the economy is doing great, people are happy and when the greatest prime minister lifted his head after kissing the shoes of the EU leaders, they petted him on the head and said "good dog", which means we are respected internationally now.
I think the main issue here in Czechia is that we dont really have someone to vote because most of the parties arent really great, the former government party and the ruling coalition isnt that great too, they are the most popular ones in polls, so we need a new party that would do something about the situation, because we dont really want to vote for populists and the ruling coalition, which we thought will bring better living standards but they didnt satisfy us and didnt do much.
There are good political parties but they are just too small with little chance of winning because people don't believe that they could win or simply don't know about them. I also voted for a party that I thought will succeed in the last election which was a mistake on my part. Just vote for any party you want, that's the only recipe for some change.
Pirates are alright. They'd be a good start as our only somewhat non-corrupt political party. Sadly, our (truly just) self-called "intelligence" keeps voting ODS year after year after year. And ODS keeps showing us again and again. And they keep showing us just how corrupt they are. Again and again and again. "Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is? Insanity is doing the exact... same fucking thing... over and over again expecting... shit to change..."
5koalice a Babišova strana ANO vedou stejnou politiku. Jediná naděje u nás je SPD a Stačilo!
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Living in Czech Republic for last 2 years, it is painfully obvious that this country needs digitisation. There is still a lot of outdated bureaucratic processes here, one which I found the most amusing was the translation stamp/string on paper. Digitising construction was a right step to be fair, even if it was handled badly? In the long rung, this will save a lot of taxpayer money, reducing the amount of clerks and other government staff needed.
But, a lot of pensioners will tell you that it doesn't do anything for them, meaning they are against it. And since pensioners are majority that's voting, we won't have it for the next 5 to 10 years :/
@@inao-czThis is a failure to communicate with them. If you explain our well-bellowed senior citizens, that every minute of our time spent on bureaucracy instead of earning money, means lower pensions for them, they may think differently.
@@Чех-б2ю I cannot say anything against this, because it's true. However, some people are stubborn much more, I personally had this conversation with my grandparents. They will tell you "But I'm not using smartphone and I need something once every three years, so it's not useful for me". Yes, this is indeed an extreme case, but there are people like this. But yes, we have really big problem with "selling" achivements here, our government isn't communicating enough about what they've done and why
It's about perspective. I got here 15 years ago and things have improved across the board 1000percent since then. Things aren't perfect but it's making good progress.
Its far more difficult to do it right, I always do it personally and it works best as you can communicate and resolve pretty much anything if you have good attitude and people are more likely to help you rather than via email or other electronic means.
The problem, as I see it as a czech citizen, is that this government was basically like to Torries, right wing, conservative government pushing for austerity. This made lots of people angry, but the problem is there is no left wing party like Labour left, so they all get sucked up by the populist oligarch Babiš, who only got radicalized over the last few years and now is close to Orban and Fico. It looks like dark times ahead for this country. I have no idea who to vote for as a social democrat ideologically, the Pirate party I used to vote for decided to "move aggresively to the center" and abandon all its values and promises. It now wants to focus on deficit reduction and economic growth, basically a center right neoliberal agenda. Not a single word about issues like climate change or the housing crisis, which concern voters like me. Unfortunatelly, there is just no alternative, the Greens in this country are weird and dead, with just 1.5% support. But I am not voting for the Pirates again, I feel betrayed by them, and their new leader feels like and arogant asshole.
Labour parties operates on a failed premise that there is someone like educated working class citizen. People like that don't exist. Average working class citizen is eneducated ignorant who vote for billionaire populists. Labour parties are finished. They are history now.
This exactly. I'm on the same boat as you. Like 99% of the government is right wing or right leaning parties, there's basically nothing to choose from. After the ČSSD died and most of their voters got stolen by ANO, the Pirates were the only left-ish leaning party left, which could realistically get elected, but now that they failed to deliver on pretty much everything and decided to shift right, there is noone left. I'm gonna probably vote for SOCDEM in the upcomming election, because while them being elected isn't all that likely, I really don't feel like there's any better choice at this moment.
Naprosto souhlasím, vůbec netuším, koho volit. Volila jsem piráty a plánovala jsem pro ně volit dál a možná k nim i vstoupit, ale Hřiba nezkousnu. Socdem bych to možná i hodila, ale realisticky, dostanou se tam…? Takže by to asi dopadlo tak že bych to se skřípánim zubů hodila SPOLU. Jediný co vim určitě, je že nechci Babiše. Přemejšlim dokonce jestli někde nezorganizovat lidi jako my, jít mluvit s ostatními a aspoň zahájit dialog… fakt nevim, co dál
As a Czech citizen myself I really don't need anyone to explain to me why the government is unpopular 😀. But it's always good to get some outside perspective and you did a really good job describing the situation. I still have no idea who to vote for next year.
At this point, Almost all governments in europe face this issue, which will cause economic and political instability in the long term, except in Italy.
I am an Italian living in Prague. Giorgia Meloni gained popularity due to her opposition to Draghi government. She still enjoys her successful moment but it might not last for long. Historically in the last 30 years no majority coalition was ever able to win two elections consecutively. We will see in next years if she will be able to consolidate the advantage.
KO has actually solidified its support since it took power in Poland. PiS isn't coming back anytime soon, maybe ever. Konfederacja might be annoying, but short of our country collapsing they will neevr take power. We're looking at at least one and half a decade of rule by left liberals
As an Italian: Italy has a specific post election government popularity pattern: -Leader X wins the elections -Enjoys 1,5-2,5 years of EXTREME popularity in the polls -after that, the pols start collapsing quite quickly (best example of this is Matteo Renzi in 2014-2016 or Salvini in 2018-2019) -By the new elections leader X is extremely unpopular (The almost only exception to this rule is Berlusconi)
based on the "solutions" he proposed and how they worked in other countries, we would be having blackouts or astronomical government debt by now. While debt created by this party aint much better either, it is still half of what we would have.
No, he's not and that's his biggest trick. He pretends to be Orban (because he knows that doing your country first politics is popular today) but he's still DC/Berlin puppet just like Fiala hahahah. Comparing him to Orban is an insult to Hungary. That's why we're doomed, we'll get another 4 years with this master liar...
He is not even Czech, he is Slovak and Czech people absolutely hate his accent, he speaks mix of Czech and Slovak, I would be more happy if he spoke just Slovak which is his native language. Some people actually asked Czech language officials about if Babiš can speak Czech (because by law, Czech politician must be able to speak Czech) and their answer was like "His language is unique, but we can consider it Czech." 😀
@@PidalinSeems like you have some personal problem with the Slovaks and not just Babis 🤔 But I honestly wouldn't be surprised Czechs are known (by outsiders also) that you you are a bunch of arrogant self centered people.. andrej babis will be your next prime minister, deal with it. And don't bother typing with me about over government and Fico because I'm not interested in whatever you have to say.
Just a slight correction on Babiš' status as a communist informant, the relevant archive in Slovakia still acknowledges him as one but the populist (and Babiš-aligned) Slovak government decided to settle a court case about the matter without the court reaching a final conclusion. The archivists say that he was an informant without any doubt and also the trustworthiness of the former StB agents that testified that Babiš wasn't an informant has been heavily questioned.
Everyone, literally everyone in former Czechoslovakia,who worked and traveled abroad had to cooperate with the StB and provide information about his travel. Everyone. It was obligatory. Meanwhile, the current czech president entered the Communist party deliberately, he was a member of the military intelligence, yet the voters are perfectly fine with that 😂
@@ShaddieDiab If you look at what Ústav pamäti národa has on him you'll find out it's a *lot* more than just travelling. As for Petr Pavel, he's honest about his past and isn't actively undermining democracy.
@@LuckaKaresova are you sure Pavel is not undermining democracy? Literally everything he's done so far was not in the interest od czech people. As for his honesty about his past - he was a deliberate communist and he left the party only after the revolution. There's no excuse for that. It is totally unacceptable for this man to be head of state.
Except it is well known, that those supposed StB archives are unreliable, so it is reasonable to take what "they have on him" with more than just a pinch of salt.
Fiala is not great, however he didn't screw it up more than Babiš, who is only interested in his money and protection. It is interesting that he is supported mainly by the poorer population, even when the pension reform is voted on, he shops in Milan and that's not to mention history.
@Minimmalmythicist Are you crazy? 😀 They are totally irrelevant party anyway, they created their coallition STAČILO with other similar parties to earn more votes together. Which is the same thing that ruling coallition SPOLU did, so I am just saying..... 😀
@MinimmalmythicistLol. Commies are responsible for 90% of the shit and degradation that happened to Cz in latest history. Its like voting for Nazzis in Germany 😂 also in my opinion true socialism/communism is a shit and always eventually leads to hell. Dont you have like 3731 examples from the world of countries that tried xx versions of socialism->communism and NONE of that lead to anything good, no matter if it was Soviet version, Cuban version, Chinese version, Venezuelan version, Arab version and so on....
Doslova v politice nemáme nikoho normálního, kdo by se mohl stát premiérem nebo obecně, být prostě ve vládě. Cirkus...... Ale pořád lepší než na Slovensku
Overall very accurate. 3 things: 1) Pirates failed, but it was more of a sabotage by ODS, as ODS was very likely bribed by the companies that were supposed to do it, but Pirates took that away and they didn't like it. 2) EU Embezzlment charges were dropped locally, EU still wants more investigation afaik and wants the money back. Not sure what happened there afterwards, but the point is that the embezzlment still happened, just officials (that were appointed by Babiš) dropped the charges. 3) He still is a registered communist informant, he just struck a deal to end a series of lawsuits.
Misinformation. 1) This is a Pirate narrative, not a proven fact. While it is possible, Bartos pretended to the last minute that everything is great. They are notorious for blaming everyone around with no proofs at all, see for example Richterova's conpiracy theory about Martin Kuba. 2) Charges were not dropped, he was ruled innocent by Prague Municipal Court. 3) False. The deal was struck by Slovak ministry since it was clear they do not have solid case and will most likely lose and pay. They also lost two previous court rulings, but previous government kept it going for propaganda purposes. This is again a progressive media narrative to keep the smear. He was registered by STB, but the records are generally considered as unreliable and it is known that people were often added to record just so their supposed handlers could check in money. Refer to Jan Schneider, former BIS analyst.
ad 1) That's not true, that's Bartoš's one-sided statement. Back in May, he claimed that the system was ready for testing and there would be no problem launching it in July. On the contractor's website (inQool) in mid-July there was already self-praise for a successful project, not a single mention of a single problem. The accusations of sabotaging ODS only came in the fall after he failed the digital rollout and was kicked out of the government for it. For me, a blatant self-defense and inability of Bartos to admit his share of the blame.
@@louvalou5317 actualy not - Dostalova from ANO gave the ODS donors the 2 bilion deal - which after that Bartos scrapped. Of course they were angry and then constantly challanged every his step to the Antimonopol agency, that is controlled by ANO people. Every scammer from all parties are connected together and there is no way out
1)That is a conspiracy theory and even if it was true, it would not change the fact, that it was Bartoš¨s fault. 3) "An informant" does not mean what you think it does.
One thing that is missig here is the media landscape in Czechia : Babis' holding was the owner of the largest newspaper publishing house (and buoght a few other's in addition) making Babis a media mogul. He sold the newspapers recently, but the same totally devoted people are still working there. His editors are invited to TV discussions as independent commentators. He also managed to build a large social media influence and has basicaly unlimmited possibility to spew lies, manipulations and shameless slander, which he abundantly does. In this way, he became a love brand for large parts of population who just bite and repeat every phrase he decides to spread. Hence- the hatred towards the government, public media, or anybody who dares to critise Babis and his business, is widely accepted as the truth. The goverment parties just seem to be helpless in facing it.
Not true. Campaingn against Babiš was multiple times bigger - for example Babiš "had" 1 obscure TV station (Barandov), so called "democrats" (5 koalition) had the rest. People are/were just fed up of Sobotka's stupidity and now are fed up by Fiala's government incompetence and corruption. What Fiala did with gas and electricity is near treason.
Nha I hate the governmant without Babiš telling me to. Altough I agree with him being an oligarch that influences public through lies and propaganda, its nothing new and nothing liberals can really fix anyway.
Eventhough I hate Babiš quite a lot and in my opinion, he belongs to jail more than many people, that are currently locked up (f.e. the case mentioned in 6:44 - he, one of the richest people in Czechia, got away with stealing 50 mil. CZK of taxpayers money), at this point, I would prefer any government to be in charge for at least 12 years (maybe except for communists, they got 41 years in helm already and they screwed this country beyond repair). It might not walk in the direction I would like to see. But currently, our country is walking in circles. Heading in literally no direction. The lifetime of each government is 4 years max. First business of each new government is to cancel whatever the old government did. And first business of each oposition party is to sabotage the winners of elections as much as they could. Literally every party does it. The results? Nothing ever gets done, no changes are happening, public finances are in shambles and citizens/businesses can't rely on anything.
Media always talks about millions stolen by people who oppose the globohomo european establishment, and never about the billions amd trillioms siphined out of your country as a result of treasonous policies, international corporations and interest paid directly to banking cartels. Czech budget isnt "missing" 50 mils bro. True price of these "selected" puppets who wave every flag but our own, isnt few nillion they steal, but treasonous policies they enact on behalf of lobbyists.
I have to say that I'm pleasantly surprised by your pronunciation of Czech names and titles, I'm glad to see that someone is trying to do it and I wish you the best of luck in your future work✨
A fantastic portrayal of the current Czech political landscape! I'm genuinely impressed. It's unfortunate that the Pirate Party has been unfairly targeted by the ODS and media regarding the digitalization of building permit systems, especially considering that an ODS member benefits from the old system and actively hindered the implementation of the new one. Despite this little flaw, the video is exceptional. 👍
we have port in Hamburg, so don't underestimate our fleet 😀 also, Czech people were important part of Austrian navy before 1918, mostly steam engine engineers and stuff like that
This situation did not last for long. I am one of those who keep leading the "anti-pirate raids" since 15th June 2021. In the first part (parliament election 2021) they lost 18 mandates. Simply: They dropped from 22 to 4 (from 10,79 % to 1,69 %). And even in other types of election they keep losing a lot of mandates (communal, senate, european, regional). And I will not stop with these anti-pirate raids until the end of Autumn 2026.
@@SeverusFelix You are one of those very few who thanked me publicly. On the internet I meet mostly the silent citizens who are on the same side but do not really thank me, or the traitors who are against the common czech folk values and they insult me.
We all know that these are just empty promises, but I'm honestly curious how he would do that - Like, does he think the companies are just gonna start paying their workers more ? or does he plan to go full on comrade mode and just raise the minimum wage and force the companies to pay their workers more somehow ? He's from the pro business party. Like what ? ,,Four more years and you'll have German wages'' is genuinly a baffling statement.
He has nothing to do. He is just betting, that german economy will fall on czechian level. If that happens he is correct, but with no improvement for Czechia.
Fiala is a political scientist yet he's still somehow capable of saying bs like this. This guys has no clue about basics of capitalism hahah. The reason why Czechs have much lower wages is simply because Germany needs to maintain their high wages hahaha. EU is nothing but continuation of nazi concept of Germany taking over Slavic countries. The only difference is they did it by economic means, not by force...
As a Czech, I gotta say that the video is correct and your pronunciation of Andrej Babiš sounded like from native and the other names were also pretty good I would say that it’s the best I’ve heard from an English speaker!
My main issue is that Czech wages are low. They are so fucking low, looking at US software engineers who make 4x of what I make on average just makes me feel despair. And they are not growing, like at all. Living here for 10 years now and still not getting citizenship (in Germany you can get one in, like, 4 years), I am full of sunken cost fallacy, and can't just leave for the greener pastures, especially with whole family to feed.
If your salary didn't grow in last years, then you should probably change your job, I have almost 3 times more than when I started working in 2012 in the same company. Ofcourse I moved to better paid place over time, but even in the same position, my salary almost doubled in last like 5-7 years and now we also work much less hours than before, so it's even better in reality. I am not saying our salaries are great, it's still not enough with our prices, but you can't say it was not growing in last years.
1) Nobody in Europe makes even close to US wages in software engineering, other than maybe Switzerland. 2) No you can’t apply for a citizenship after 4 years in Germany. It was 8 until very recently. Now I think it’s 6. 3) Where are you from and why did you move to Czechia? Were the salaries better when you were moving? How was the difference to your country.
@@janlanik2660 "Nobody in Europe makes even close to US wages in software engineering, other than maybe Switzerland." Ehm....Germany, Iceland, Norway, Denmark, UK, France, Sweden, Finland........they are all richer or on the same level as US, don't tell me that they earn less as software engineers. And only reason why people move here to Czechia is that they work online and still having western salary and they just want to live in cheaper country, other reason doesn't exist.
But the salaries, especially in IT are something that the government can't do much about. The main issue is that many people are still mentally stuck in 90's and early 2000's, even in IT companies. It will take at least another decade before that generation will leave executive positions in companies.
@@MrToradragon Exactly, after we got rid of some older bosses in our company, things started improving pretty fast, their mentality is what slowers us and make our gdp per capita worse. I'll give you example - you have two options - to buy thing for 2000 eur that will significantly improve your productivity or work saturdays and overtime to finish your work while working not efficiently. What do you think older boss will choose? Invest to improve efficiency or force you to work overtime? Try to guess. After these people ended, nothing is problem anymore, even when I ask owner himself, he is like "Why are you asking me? Just order it when you need it" which clearly shows that these older bosses were sabotating it even behind owners's back and he didn't see it.
fact check: Andrej Babiš is still registered as a comunist informant in Slovak Ústav paměti národa (Institute of National Memory). However, he made deal with Slovak ministry which claimed that Babiš is registrated unfairly. The issue is that he is still registrated as one and he had even publicly admitted to that.
The merit is not what is in the document, but whether that document was true and what he did in practice. Since those documents are known to be unreliable due to corruption (ref. ex-BIS Jan Schneider) and court already twice ruled in favor of Babis and case analysis predicted another loss and payments by Slovak ministry there is no proof of shady deals.
From a perspective of an ordinary Czech citizen I see it this way: no matter how good or bad this government would be, around 1/4 to 1/3 of the population would hate it anyway. Its mostly consisted of parties synonymous to people from Prague and other big cities, most of whom live detached from the reality of people from poorer regions / working class in general. They inhereted chaos caused by the Babiš government during the pandemic, the war started and brought its own crisis, both of which wasnt their fault, but they added *complete* lack of skill in communicating key (and largely unpopular) things that simply had to be done + addressing things that shape lives of people in rural regions especially during these troubled times, both of which cemented their let-them-eat-cake look. Partly unjust, partly sadly true. The main problem though is that even people who voted for them (and who largely live comfy or at least ok lives) simply dont see the changes promised even without the constant mud throwing the opposition is rather masterful in, and many of them wont vote for them or at all, because there is simply not much to pick from.
I think this is also partly caused because for some reason we’re not used to govern ourselves. We don’t really participate as people. No one who would be competent in ways city liberals aren’t comes forth and tries. Politics is for everyone in democracy, but here it is only for the rich or psychopathic or both. No idea how to change that though. It might be cultural.
"Its mostly consisted of parties synonymous to people from Prague and other big cities" the vast majotiry of Czech high ranked politicians have Moravian accent, nobody is ruled by Prague, we are vice versa ruled by moravians and some villagers.
@@Pidalin These parties are generally more popular in larger cities, and yes, especially in Prague, which near always the largerst exception in any elections. A politician doesnt need to be from a certain place to gain votes there. ANO and SPD gain voters especially in poorer regions and rural areas, pro European parties tend to be popular in larger cities. Thats just how it is.
yeah, they are the only party where you know that everyone supports marige equality, basic human right that we unfutunetly still dont have in czech republic
@@Harsh-mg2em Thats not true, weed is illegal only if it contain illegal substances such as THC or HHC and so on. So if you have weed with THC it is still illegal.
There are Pirate Parties all over Europe, it's nothing unheard of. It's just that our Pirate Party is the only one that is at least somewhat successful to the point of actually entering the government etc.
well afaik, he still is quite popular and he is actually doing really good. one of the best politicians we have had in a long time. But then again, the opposition's campaign is doing a lot of work. i still remember hundreds of people yelling that Pavel is going to send us to war day one (even Babiš himself was basically saying that). didn't happen and now the people are just making other things up to hate on him, even though he has done nothing wrong... but yeah, he's still quite popular nevertheless
@@kur3cpalec360 He did nothing wrong, but he also did nothing literally good, he is less and less visible in last months, I almost forgot that he exists.
@@Pidalinits a ceremonial and diplomatic function. He travels, meets with politicians abroad, moderates different events and signs laws (can be outvoted by parliament easily). Hes not manager politician, its rather a highest diplomat and cultural official. I think just this diplomatic and cultural output of his takes like 90% of his work time.. What he has to do he is doing fine in my opinion, if you wish him to be more active in management then we need to change the law to change of meaning of CZ president.
@@Aggoenix I agree, but on other hand, in last months, I am annoyed by his absolutely monotone way of speaking and English that is not getting better, he sounds like a robot. Not terrible, but it is still pain to listen him in English. If he wants to be really that representative person, he should work on this, not only in English, but even in Czech, he speaks like when teacher calls you in front of blackboard and you just don't know. And don't take me wrong, I voted for him.
Really awesome video, but Andrej Babiš is actually still registered as an STB agent, he made a shady deal with the Slovak Ministry of the Interior, which after his lawsuit and subsequent defense said that he was wrongly registered as an agent, although his STB agent file still exists and is valid. (I hope this is understandable because English is not my strongest language.)
And why should we, if we are being lied to and manipulated? I gave them my vote to do the unpopular thing, only for them to try to be bigger populists than Babiš. Like WTF!
There's nothing to vote for. It's the same all over the western world. The liberal democracy is being overrun by populists, some of them pretty dangerous, because the liberal governments do not seem to make any real changes. People can vote for "lesser evil" only so many times before they are done with it all.
At some point every human being realizes that enough is enough. I will not give my vote to anyone I consider below standards I believe in. It's waste of time and personal integrity.
@@brumleek Even if there was no political party with a real possibility of crossing the minimum threshold that would correspond exactly to your preferences. And I totally understand that you don't want to vote for a party that has no chance of getting in. It doesn't mean you shouldn't go vote. I understand that it is a choice whether one goes to the polls. But I still think that it is better to look carefully at the program of each party and then choose the option that is closest to you, even if you may differ in some details. And even if that was against your heart, then look at the people on those candidates, maybe you know someone and you know that he is a person whose views are close to you. In that case, I advise you. Don't vote that party, vote that person. Some elections allow people to be prioritized on the candidate list. And if enough people like you are found, there is the potential to push the people who are at the back of the list to the front.
Fiala was given a Milei-like mandate for tough choices and austerity. Instead, he made only cosmetic changes and still delivers annual deficits of quarter of a trillion CZK. He alienated a good chunk of his own voters while gaining nobody from across the aisle because why would they vote for the professor governing like Babiš-lite when they can vote for Babiš himself?
I think only the comeback of Kalousek can bring Milei-like policies. I have never liked him as a person but desperate times call for desperate measures.
@@the_kovic Economic austerity measures and shock therapy does not work, the most of economists don't approve it. Argentina's poverty and unemployment are rising because of that, meanwhile inflation is still the highest on the planet and its decline is slowing. Milei politics is the last thing you really want here.
@@SharnLugonn Nope. Kalousek basically ditched such policies in past. Tlusty prepared such program called Modra Sance, but Topolanek with Kalousek ditched it.
1:35 while the statement of “being in government “ is correct, the chairman of the party was “only” a minister 2014-2017, not the prime minister, which is what the statement is implying.
velmi přesně a věcně shrnuto / jen k doplnění, velkou měrou se na celkovém stavu podepsali prodejní novináři, kteří neříkají lidem pravdu a také jsi opoměl na zavedení vládní cenzury, kdy každého s jiným názorem označí (veřejně či neveřejně) jako dezinformátora" nebo přímo za "lháře" ...
Czech here. It is bit more complex than this. The issue with Fiala is that he is silently implementing green deal and forced electro mobility, which voters who tend to be on the right side of spectrum really don't like. ODS used to be eurosceptic/eurorealistic but today policy especially with in the SPOLU coalition, it is strongly pro "all shit EU". Which people don't like and vote for parties, who are more openly against this eu nonsense - which is Babis or the other "populists" parties.
It’s pretty much a right-wing alternative to ODS, whilst being tougher and more radical in their approach to certain issues e.g. Greendeal, migration, military financing and so on. Their EP member Turek made a lot of headlines during election campaign for 1) having a photo taken of him doing the Roman salute and 2) also having Nazi souvenir knife at his home. I’d say his persona and all of the controversies helped Motorists get 9% of the vote lmao.
The problem with the pirates is that whenever they try to push real change they are shut down by the government, they tried to make gay marriage legal, government voted against. They tried to digitize the country and they got fired.
Actually finally legalizing gay marriages would help us even when I am not gay and it's not directly my problem, but our governments spend too much time (and our money) by speaking about these things, literally years....I am saying make it legal and stop wasting our time and money, we have to care about things that are much more important for our country, like housing crisis, but when they spend half of the year by voting about some gay marriages, there is no time for anything else.
@ thing is the opposition knows their voters and stirring drama around controversial topics like gay marriage is more successful for them than actually fixing any problems
Well, one of the problems is that the prime minister Fiala is at war, while most people in our country are not. He also managed to create an impression that Ukraine and its people are more important to him than his own Czech Republic (not Czechia :-D).
Popularity shouldn't be the thing they should be after. In reality, if you are not popular, you are not likely to get a chance to be somebody important to implement your ideas or policies. That's democracy.
They already implemented some things, but the next government (likely ANO, SPD and maybe the communist party) will revert a lot of those things. So even when you're popular enough to do something good, it's hard to make it last, and if it does, others will take credit for it.
Pirates also let our only data sharing website become totally illegal. Of course there were some copyrighted movies etc. but it also contained huge heritage of college books of czech authors i used and now i cant get them by any way.
What are you talking about? ANO was a right party and they shifted firmly left on any social issue. The pension valorisation wasn't reduced per se, it was just returned to the previous level.
I know that there surely are many problems with the current coalition in the state government but I believe from experience that with Babiš's ANO 2011 in the power the problems right now would be insignificant then. In the past they always talked very very big but did sh*t about those talked things (I don't wanna say promises) instead when in the state power. Not to mention him and his huge Agrofert Holding still manipulating our media.
One thing is missing. Fiala lies all the time and that’s why he is so unpopular. Before elections he promised to stop growing national debt, not to change retirement age or bump taxes. But he did exact opposite in all of those things.
The dumbest thing is that the new construction system actually works fine. The decrease in new construction is expected during summer. It was designated to iron out issues that are expected when launching new system. But it was a good opportunity for Fiala to point at someone and blame him for not delivering any of the promises he made.
? What are you talking about. Bartoš told everyone that it works and don't even need grace period. Now it is apparent that whole parts of systems are missing - even from his explanation. They did not even tried to run that, otherwise they found it does not work at all.
@ It is a bit of an over-statement, but the hysterical reaction of trashing it just because of the “labour pains” (which every such project unfortunately has) was completely undue and one can’t but think that there were indeed purely political reasons, instead of practical.
@@seriousjan5655 And you’re right, such a thing should have been put into test deployment, which should run months in parallel to the current system… That’s how it’s properly done-and that’s what we never seem to do, do we? Remember the new car license plate system fiasco? As a programmer, I really despair when these things happen…
As a czech who watches politics, this is a very good sum-up. Some info in the video is not 100% accurate as some things are more complicated, but completely sufficient for a non-czech viewer. Unfortunatelly a lot of people had huge expectations when Spolu won the election in 2021 and they dissapointed badly. For moderate pro-european center-right voters there is currently no acceptable alternative.
This video is excellent 8min summary of last 4 year long shit show. Babiš government enjoyed most its term in a time of global economic peak and a lot of people falsely give Babiš credit for it. Then pandemic hit and Babiš really didn't handle that well. With Fiala came a lot of incompetence, government failed to act on rising energy prices, prioritizing energy giants over its citizens. Where Czech now pay on average 2.5x for energy than they used to. Average family in Czechia is currently incapable of saving any money as its entire excess income is eaten by increased energy costs and inflation. I don't know if situation would be better or worse under Babiš and I don't believe anyone really knows. But it really does not matter. Fiala is the Prime Minister and he is responsible.
"government failed to act on rising energy prices" Wrong. They didn't fail. They just did what Brusels/DC told them = prioritize Ukraine and foreign private sector over it's own people... it's called colonial relationship...
Also Fiala´s ego plays a good role in his downfall, and as a Czech not from Prague, Im here for it.. Maybe in big cities like Prague, Brno or Olomouc things are not that bad, but outside of them people struggle, our family has saved through years. Now we have drained what we have. You were good when the higher bills came, just pay them from savings account, then it came all at once, car problems, bills, higher food prices, more bills and it goes on and on and on. At this point we live from paycheck to paycheck while my parents work 12h a day (my father as dispatcher in railroad working 12h day and night shift and my mother as civil servant in a pension department working 8-12h) and me and my sister as students working on weekend (I work construction and my sister in retail). If I made that kind of money I make now I would be in perfect place 4 years back, now I work just to have little bit of live that I can enjoy.And not just our family. Other complain too, working 9-5 + overtime just to get by. And Babiš, he is flawed person, but one thing that he knows is economics. And his communist backround isnt much of a issue at this point, If you see Czech president Petr Pavel, he was also in communist party, he is not that diffrent, non of them are. And with Fiala´s latest speach where he said "If we give him 4 more years, our salary´s would be like in Germany and Austria" is prime example of populism. Nobody is good, but Babiš is out best chance.
It's more like vice versa, in Prague, it's terrible, people are living from one salary to another salary. You earn like 25-30 000 CZK after tax and you pay the same money for rent. Now I live in little town 30 km from Prague and people here have much better lives and are much more rich, but they still complain about "rich Praguers" because they don't realize what they have here (houses, 2 cars etc.....). People who envy Praguers should look at what they own first, because in Prague, you mostly own just 4 chairs and TV and you can be under bridge next month after they increas your rent to level that you just can't afford it anymore. I work as a CNC operator and programmer in village furniture factory and I have better salary than most of people I know in Prague, most of them work in shops and other services and they rely on tips from customers. And instead of increasing their salary, owner will more likely employ another youkrajinians (I am trying to not trigger algoritm by naming that country) or slovaks or something. In Prague you have pretty much just 2 options: work in shop or restaurant on not well qualified work place where you can be easily replaced by foreign work power or second thing: have some warm place in some office, but you NEED good contacts to get such place, they will never accept you just like that, even if you have education and experiences, you need contacts and someone who will recommend you, that's how it works in their social bubble, they don't just accept random people from street.
Yeah in Prague it is bad just try living here now. Since war started there is 500.000+ more ukrainians and that is not imaginary number it is reality city is just NOT capable to handle such many people prices of housing etc skyrocketed.
@@prolamer7 Well, housing crisis didn't start with war, but I also have some worry about so many ukrainians here, ofcourse when there is still war, I am patient, but sometimes it's hard to keep patience when you can't even communicate in your native language in your country and half of city is written in cyrillic like during soviet occupation. I don't believe there is just 500 000 of them, it must be like 3 times more in reality, whole villages speak russian now and in local shops, you see just adidas gopniks.
Babiš may know about economics, but people like you, who know nothing about economics and blindly trust the nonsense he says are making the situation kind of doomed. Babiš is just throwing money left right and center (after taking off his cut of course), because it's popular thing to do and it will earn with votes. He caused inflation rate increase of like 10%, which was unmatched anywhere else in Europe...(By the way, this is the reason your family savings were gone :P - or at least 10% of them). You should know that debts need to be paid off. When Babiš racks up debt, just so people can live better for 2 years, someone will need to pay it off later. I just hope I will finalize my plans of moving out before election comes, because I don't want to be the one paying off your fucking debt.
Wow just wow. There are a parts that are a lot simplified than they should be and I disagree with how I think some parts sound to ppl that are not from CZ but for a 9 minutes video you did a hela good job 💚 thanks for anyone who is not Czech and finished this video!
Czech politics to give you the tldr, the current government is so out of touch with the vast majority of the population that they make Kamala Harris seem like she is right in the middle of the community. They have made a lot of very unpopular decisions and seem tone deaf to the plight of the average Czech. Could this with a leader that has the charisma of a wet mop and you have all the makings of a terrible election outcome of the next elections for the major ruling party. The opposition has essentially a Trump problem with the media having turned on the leader of the party as he is not as left as their taskmasters (the media in Czech republic just like the rest of the western world is very left leaning mostly due to being owned by the same people as a lot of the rest of the western media) This has resulted in a lot of those that sheepishly follow the media being very upset with anyone that would consider saying anything good about the ANO party or even worse their leader. The anti media anti establishment sentiment combined with the anti EU views of a lot of especially older Czechs who see a lot of similarities between the EU proposals and the things the communist party was doing back in the day have helped push the ANO party to great hights combine this with them being the only large party that is a credible option for the formation of a government and you have a clear winner of the next elections. Now personally I do not care for either as both sides of the equation are very much same old same old and have no intention to do anything about the mess that is every day Czech republic with stagnating wages, raging inflation and outrages house prices to name but a few issues plaguing the nation. The main thing to expect from a next government in Czech republic is a slightly more right leaning government, despised by the media and the current president. With the new government mostly looking out for themselves and their "sponsors" instead of the good of the country as that seems to be the way of modern day Czech politics. It be great to see a credible opposition that runs on a platform of cleaning up the corruption tackling the over spending and getting a grip on the economy so the average Czech can live a bit better life again. Unfortunately the only other parties are as mentioned in the video very limited in scope and mostly single interest parties and as such cannot be considered as viable alternatives to the large parties that dominate the Czech political scene. Lets see maybe in a decade or two a new party will stand up and run on a platform of making the republic a good place to live again but for now I fear we will see more tearing down of the good live in Czech republic.
You basically covered that well, but I will specify some of issues. Czech society can be quite apologetic about personal issues of politicians, but we do not forgive failures and lies. ODS/government promised to become austere, but also cut taxes spending. Also we expected some level of competence in crisis management. While abroad we are now excellent, domestically they failed basically everything. The most obvious failure is energy prices. They should cut of Leipzig stock exchange, semiclose Prague energy stock market (no imports) and shut off gas power plants (which according to EU law would have lowered prices significantly). Same reason is failure of Pirate party/Bartoš. We expected Pirates to be competent in digitalisation which was basically main reason they were elected. Pirate party was labeled as digitalisation party. If you fail in your main agenda and also allow your ranks to be infested with neo-communist you do not bode well with Czech public. Last but not least. ANO uses populist and high spending policies which bode well with disillusioned people and people on verge of bankruptcy. While in the same time government refuses to take responsibility for their failures being arrogant. All in all we are in situation which is quite clear. I would hate Babiš government and I will not vote for him, but we basically do not have good alternative.
czechs: “we do not forgive failure and lies”, then proceed to vote for Babiš (who plunged the entire civil service into chaos, oversaw one of the worst handlings of the pandemic in Europe, and lies twice a day…)
@@karelkieslich6772 I am not Babiš voter, but civil service remained basically same and opposition parties wanted to do same as Babiš so that would not help. Czechs wants freedom. Most people wanted Sweedish way without any regards on human lives. We rather die than restrict our freedom.
@@vladimirbrabec69 I don’t think the covid death rate was so much based on a nation’s love-for-freedom (otherwise, Russia, Peru or Bulgaria would need to be the most freedom-loving people in the world) but rather on the incompetence of the pandemic response. I’m a Czech doctor living in the UK and I had inside view of both systems and the governments’ coordination: a lot more Czechs (per capita) died than the British and even though the British government’s response was pretty chaotic too, it pales in comparison with the Czech one. I mean, that’s what you get when you prioritise loyalty over competence and appoint health ministers who have zero experience but are good at agreeing with you. And when you then exchange the health minister four times and change your messaging every month, just chaos. Sorry but that wasn’t some manifestation of the Czech love for freedom, it was a pretty clear example of failure in crisis management. So I don’t find your thesis (that Czechs don’t forget failure) very convincing. However… However… my view is that the current government is different from Babiš only in scale, not in kind. Mr Babiš wants to control the state for the benefit of himself, he wants to be the top oligarch, milk the state while he can and then retire somewhere in France, and he doesn’t really care what will happen to the country. ODS and these parties want to control the state for the benefit of a small group of smaller oligarchs and “businessmen”, their friends, whose interests they serve; they don’t like the idea of one single top oligarch, they want a plurality of small-scale little oligarchs. But the basic idea that the state is there to secure your business interest is very similar. They of course differ in the assessment of what foreign policy will benefit them: Babiš has no foreign view on his own, he’ll cynically unite with anyone who will help him get better control of the Czech state, and espouse any view that he thinks can get him votes, even if that goes against key Czech interests. ODS etc realise they need stable EU&NATO for their businesses to thrive, but in a situation where the economy stagnates and people are getting poorer, I can’t blame people for not caring about foreign policy - although it of course should be possible to explain that this is a very shortsighted view. But on the domestic scene, the government didn’t really present a vision of a strong Czechia that would be growing and helping its citizens. We have pretty fundamental problems with housing, welfare, education, infrastructure and efficiency of the civil service that just need to be addressed. The solutions have been proposed but it seems no one is able to make them happen. But until we have a party that actually takes it seriously that people need to feel they’re getting richer and have more and better opportunities in order not to vote for a guy who promises them miracles, we will be getting guys who promise them miracles. And like many times, they will get disappointed with Babiš in power soon enough. The trouble is of course that Babiš will try what he can not to leave power this time, learning from Orban and others. But we need to be able to offer an actual positive vision, not just say that anything is better than Babiš. Unfortunately, a lot of people don’t believe this anymore. With grinded teeth, I see this government as better than him of course, but as I said, it’s a difference on a scale, not in kind. And that’s not enough.
@@prkp7248Expat, migrant, foreigner, call me whatever you prefer; it's still me. P.S. I never said to be better than other migrants. It's just your moralistic thought speaking, not me.
I clicked on the video expecting a completely wrong take on our politics but I was pleasantly surprised - you summarized the issues plaguing our country very well, great job!
While the rest of Czechia is struggling with economic crisis, these people suggested and voted for the new regulation against Russian immigrants. From now on, all people with Russian passports cannot apply for Czech citizenship - that's everyone who lived here for 10 or more years paying taxes and contributing to the economy. At the same time, Fiala is surprised about workforce shortage, while people who emigrated from Russia (around 30-40k people) are seriously considering moving from the country which directly discriminates them. What a joke.
@@xsc1000 I don't think people who lived in Czechia for 10 years (or even 2-3 years) had any influence on that decision, and I'm pretty sure they didn't choose to be born in Russia. I expect that standard background check for everyone applying to Czech citizenship is enough. Also, not sure that I understand why any action made by criminal Russian government should cause European countries to go against EU values and basic human rights, discriminating people just for their nationality.
Aggree if thats true, I am sorry that's wrong decision, people living and working here for serval years should get citizenship. My friend is Russian she got her citizenship earlier this year.
@@eldenarmortem975 thanks for your kind words. Czech parliament had a reading for the regulation I'm talking about today (law Lex Ukrajina 7). They discussed it, but didn't vote, most probably the next chance to vote will be on Friday 22.11.24. So far only opposition is critical about it, and I'm afraid most of the deputees are not aware of the actual reading of the law they vote for.
@@everv0id-u6dYou can easily apply for Czech citizenship, but you must renounce Russian citizenship. You can't sit on two chairs on the "eve" of a world war.....
Czechs are never satisfied. No matter what government people will complain. Low crime, low unemployment, No big immigration problem, stable economy and people will still think things are terrible. As an American who lives in Prague it’s not really my business what government Czechs choose, but I do know no matter what Czechs will complain.
You have nailed it :)) if only Czech people travelled more around the world, they would have been more grateful for what they have. Personally, I used to study in the US for 4 years and then came back to Prague and I have started to appreciate everything I used to take for granted…
Try asking them maybe. Me personaly, I voted for fiscal responsibility and no tax raises. Got tax raises and budged deficits. I will complain. Just because my country is not Detroit, it doesn't mean I have to accept lower standards.
"Low crime, low unemployment, No big immigration problem" Imagine using this as some sort of achievement you should be grateful and that's it lol. What a low standard. This should be normal which reminds me of how low we've sunk. Moreover, NONE of this is Fiala's credit. Fiala is actually for more migration and more green politics...
@@sixmillionaccountssilenced6721 Having all of these is extremely rare, if not unique in the world. There's no fence keeping those who look east from living the Ruzzian dream...
I would say that Fiala's hater are really really loud whilst his supporters and people who don't mind him (or at least do not hate) just stay silent. He has a lot of haters (he does what's necessary, not what's comfortable and I would say that he is doing well) that are like "we are 1000 but let's behave like we are 1 000 000". A am really grateful for your video, it's amazing!❤😊
Im Czech and i think that we can describe the czech political, societal and economical landscape perfectly, by the
"This is fine" meme
I wish we had a good party instead of just needing to pick the last bad party, maybe the monarchists.
@Adam-g01 We have monarchists? If thats so isnt it one of the parties that never ever get any media coveredge so they can never be elected?
@@Adam-g01 Czechia has a monarchist party? When was there a pre Habsburg king? Back in the days of Bohemia?
Czech%
Political crisis, Pfff as long as beer stays the same price
(Beer price increases)
Its over for the gov
@@FaustsKanaal The monarchist party are mostly pro habsbrug (tho they kinda are a meme)
This man knows more about Czech politics than Czech politicians do.
😂😂😂
He doesn't. It was obviously unobjectively nice to Babiš and the whole ANO
@@10ondraKoho volíš Ty? Než začneš odsuzovat, předem říkám, že od 18 let jsem ani jednou nevolil. Proč? Volby na bázi emocí jsou slepá ulice.
@@Ladislav1993 Já upřímně nevolím, protože není koho, ale stále si stojím za tím, že SPOLU je menší zlo. V životě bych nevolil populisty.
@@10ondra Not just to him.
I like how a landlocked country has a party called "the Pirates".
They were one of the first pirate parties in Europe IIRC, that formed back around early 2000s around the computer hacker/hippie kind of social progressivism (think people like Richard Stallman) , which the video points out well - the pirate in the slogan had to do with media piracy, after all this was the era of DMCA. After many years, they actuallly got elected but didn't seem to have delivered much of their ideals....
It's a circus in here
Should be renamed to "the highwaymen"
@@VladimirE.-is2ee Czech Pirate Party was founded in 2009
@@petrsvetnicka7620 My bad! I remember hearing about pirates a few years earlier than that, but it might just have been foreign movements, and anyways, the call to found such a party is indeed from 2009
I'm French and it's scary how I feel most of European country are facing the exact sames problems
We are so differents and yet so close at the same time, hold on my Czechs brothers 🤝
Allons enfants de nos patries💪🇨🇵🇨🇿
@@vn646 Ça va après « Ou est chez moi, ou est ma maison ? »
Erosion of traditional political affiliations, global populist trends, facilitated by a changing media landscape...
Well, we don't have nigmigrants. No big cultural war would be here.
Tato země ,,přežila" komouše, aby nakonec jeden dělal prezidenta, z toho blba Fialy už máme jenom srandu, brzo odejde a bude klid. Jenom je škoda že se tady neprovozuje trest smrti.
Here in Czechia, trying to pass real changes that aren't soft solutions and not leaving all the tough decisions on the future governments is basically self sabotage.
Czechia's current goverment voter here👋: They are trying, but they are horribly unsuccesfsul - angrying both the opposition and their voters.
They doing exactly opposite of their promises. Election will insteresting, if ODS can get to parlament again.
@@tonymarik1649 Maybe, but i'm still glad it was them and not Babiš leading us since 2021. I think they could do a lot better after 2025 (if things stabilize and the economy can grow again), but we won't get to see it.
Same in Germany
Sorry but their economical policy is just not good. They proved us that cutting spending and austerity is worse way of handling crisis than spending more - neighbour countries went different path, for example Polish goverment spend a lot of money in order to defend economy from postpandemic crisis, and thanks to that our economy recovered quickly and Return to growth.
Keynesian spending > austerity measures.
I can't believe it. You guys actually improved your pronunciation issues concerning slavic languages significantly. Th only issue being Kalousek's name, with the "ou" being pronounced simply as the o in the word "mole". But overall, a much better job, keep it up.
I agree, it has improved a massive amount! There are still some other small mistakes here, but Czech pronounciation is hard for a British guy, so I shouldn’t dwell on them and instead I’m happy to see the progress!
Pravdou je že dost tuneloval a tak je mu krtek podobnější
Yeah, but he still can't pronounce "mayors."
Unless it really is the Mares Party, I guess. Once you have pirates, all bets are off.
@SeverusFelix that's just his accent
@BaofuTheCanonicalPersonaHater Englishmen can't speak English for shit.
While this video is correct and well made, one point is missing: generally, Czechs have deep mistrust for authorities deeply rooted in them and no government in recent history has really been popular.
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Police and army tend to be highly trusted. Even courts maintain pretty high level of trust. Not the politicians.
@@firstlast1932 Courts? lol I don't know anybody trusting our courts of law, when all medialized cases are about murderes or rapists getting the lowest possible punishment people are not happy.
People liked president Havel
@@Vario69 not all of them, and he wasn´t a politician
One small, but important correction: Babiš WASN'T pulled out of the register of Communist police informants. He struck a deal with Fico's government (fellow corrupt authoritarians) in Slovakia that ended a series of court cases, in which Babiš was suing various Slovakian institutions in order to get his name pulled out of the records. The courts didn't reach any definitive conclusion, but Babiš and his name is still present in the records and historians from Slovakian archives still agree and has agreed for years that Babiš indeed was a Communist police informant. Not to mention he admitted it 12 years ago himself in a TV interview.
I am pretty sure he is still maintaining his commie connections. They never disappeared, they just went undercover and now they’re emerging. You can clearly see this in Slovakia and Hungary.
it's a lie, Babiš did not struck a deal with Fico's government but with the Ministry of the Interior for the reason that the Slovak side was lacking evidence and decided that it was better to come to an agreement because it would probably lose the court case based on 2 analysis. One was made by law firm and second was done by a judge of the Constitutional Court.
As for the the comments he made 12 years ago in Czech TV show (type Kraus - Babis)
He stated 2 times he wasn't an agent... And when he is talking about making reports
of the foreigners his division traded with is taken out of the context of the entire conversation.
@@Rinsemachine well thats still wont change the fact that he will be in slovaks archives written down as agent. As one of the employees of archives stated, court has no power over archives, its against their constitution to erase anyone from archives, so no matter how would court decided, it would not change anything.
Plus archives were not even part of the dispute not as witness or defendant, so by law, there could not have been any conclusion towards it.
@@TheWintythe most important thing is, that the court decided nothing. Babiš just struck a deal with the ministry to make the problem go away assuming no one potentially voting for him will know the difference or even care . The assumption unfortunately is mostly correct.
There are some misleading information is your statement.
Babiš did not dispute that he was listed in the registers of communist police informants. He was clearly registered there and he actually confirmed this. The subject of the dispute is that Babiš claims that he was listed in this way without his knowledge and against his will.
It could be created a files on any citizen of Czechoslovakia in the registers of _state security_ (state intelligence) even if person did not agree to it. Now the Slovak Ministry of the Interior has given a conciliatory agreement that it actually acknowledges that Babiš was listed there even though he did not ask for it and did not want it.
The unpopularity of the Czech government reflects a deeper issue than policy failures or poor communication-it’s about a profound disconnect with the Czech soul. Our history, defined by centuries of foreign domination, has taught us to approach authority with skepticism. From the Habsburgs to the Soviets, power has often been distant, self-serving, and dismissive of the people’s needs. Czechs value fairness, pragmatism, and humility, and when these are absent in leadership, trust collapses quickly.
Many feel that the government governs for the approval of Brussels or Berlin rather than addressing the everyday struggles of Czechs. Rising inflation, inequality, and a general sense of insecurity create fertile ground for frustration. Policies that might look good on paper often feel unfair or detached from reality. But this discontent isn’t just about the government-it’s about the broader context in which it operates.
Czech society is caught in a perfect storm of disinformation, media manipulation, and political stagnation. Our media landscape is heavily influenced by oligarchs who often prioritize their own interests over public service. Instead of informing and uniting, the media frequently amplifies divisions and feeds mistrust. This is compounded by the flood of disinformation from foreign actors like Russia, who exploit our societal fractures to sow chaos and undermine faith in democracy. From conspiracy theories to outright lies, these campaigns aim to erode trust in institutions and polarize the population further.
The result is a vicious cycle: a government that struggles to communicate effectively, a media that often prioritizes profit or influence over truth, and foreign disinformation that magnifies every fault line. In this environment, even well-intentioned policies are met with skepticism or outright hostility.
The Czech soul is resilient and pragmatic. We don’t expect miracles, but we demand sincerity, fairness, and leadership that serves the people-not foreign interests, media moguls, or political elites. Until our leaders and institutions understand this and address the root causes of mistrust-including disinformation and media bias-the gap between government and citizens will only widen. Trust can be rebuilt, but it requires transparency, humility, and a commitment to the values that truly matter to the Czech people.
Sometimes I wonder if it is even possible to give honest and fair information now. Surprisingly, honesty is there somewhere at the beginning, more often than it seems, but disproportionately more ads are clicked if it is presented in the most controversial way possible. Then it is enough for the propaganda and the fifth column to join in...
Same here in America, change is coming if the government doesn’t change. Whether it be at gun point or the ballot box people are pissed.
It is easy to put the blame on foreign countries. But didn't your own government make Czechs more susceptible to foreign interference by not prioritizing national interests?
Well hello there, brothers. As an American, I’m sorry you’re facing the same clusterf**k we are.
@@guavaguy4397well, change will come on January 20th. The problem is, that change seems to be aimed at making peoples’ lives worse.
Here in Czechia when you vote you don't choose who is more good. But who is less evil.
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Oh, a European U.S. Wonderful. Let us unite in our misery.
well that's basically the same for the entire world
They are not that evil more like boring and afraid to do any good changes
@@Hilariusgamer yeah. MOST of them are not evil. they just fucking suck. Fiala saying that he feels like getting 30 % in the next election while polling barely 13 at the time is so stupid
Hey, im from Czech republic. Im amazed how correr ur news are. Ty for ur job is amazing love this chanel.
Just a small correction - Bartoš (Pirate Party) really didn't deliver when it comes to the digitalization of construction permit system BUT it's also important to mention that ODS Party from the SPOLU coalition also played a part in that because they basically sabotaged it. :P Investigative journalists found out that a "company" (with like three employees) connected to one of the members of ODS was making official complaints to slow down the digitalization on purpose. The company complained that the selection process (to pick the company which would help make a new digital system for this purpose) was unfair even though they literally couldn't develop the system because they have next to none employees & have been inactive for quite some time.
I really tried to like the current government but I can't stand Fiala for firing Bartoš for "incompetence." He knows very well what his friends from ODS have done.
Yeah and it is also sad that Bartoš didn't talk about this openly. He didn't have to be fired, he could finish the implementation. And also logically he already made something and the company that was making it still exists so they could even finish it under the new supervision and it wouldn't even be impossible to use the new unfinished system alongside the old one as a temporary solution. But the problem is that Bartoš chose this contract because it was way cheaper than other options. And the other options were contracts given to the corrupt friend of the ODS party with very bed terms for the state. So they didn't like that Bartoš was actually trying to cut them off an do something the right way. They had to sabotage him so the corruption could continue. Now all the work Bartoš did is going to be scrapped and the system will be made from the ground up by the evil company with worse conditions for the state and it will be much more expensive. Beautiful
That's a cope. The truth is, Bartoš is just as terminally inapt as the rest of them (including cooperation with corrupt, immoral people like Hřib, or by employing political extremists in his inner circle); the only difference is that he wasn't as shrewd/politically experienced to see the backstab that was being prepared for him (while ODS has been doing stuff like that since the early 90s). Worse, he really went above and beyond to help ODS remove him from office.
@@osiris4457 false
Short versions: Pirates were right, ODS are still "godfathers" even after they got rid of people around Klaus. As a Pirate voter, I admit that Pirates screwed it and I don't think they were supposed to leave coallition, but there is something suspitious about how ODS behaves and it was always there.
@@Pidalin Yeah ... "As pirate voter"... Basically say everything you need about your impartiality. Pirates screwed it up solely. If those issues were there they would and SHOULD present them in advance, but they did not. Now they are just doing what they did since last PS election. Cry and kick around themselves. Government is obliged to inform its subject i.e. voters about processes they make and why they are like that. Minister is basically manager and he failed in transparent management which is one of two main pirate "brands". Failure in transparency and failure in digitalisation. What a pity I kind of rooted for them (and used to vote for them 12 years ago - during times when they were more centrist and did not have social policies). Now they showed their incompetency.
As Czech who doesnt care a crap about our politics, you made me click on this video and actually watch this crazy situation we are in. Im even surprised that someone who doesnt live in this country takes so much time and effort trying to make sense of this mess. Thank you for that!
Id like to care about politics but there is no party that alights with what I see as important
@@by_bloodSame.
Wanna start a party with me actually?
Petition of a 1000 is all it takes in regards to people, and also Plans, I am developing those in as much Sectors of Real life as possible.
So hopefully. we can have morality, safety, ecology, economical safety, good lifestyle.
Understanding lifestyle that would push us above even USA in terms of mentality.
I am pushing for ideas of COF-999 chemical research to make combustion cars Legal an Ecological.
Albeit I am no researcher or Chemics student, I would apprecite knowledge of COF-999 existing.
Also. The morals are in my video.
Maybe if you and your kind would care, country would not be in deep shit. If I was in charge, elections would be mandatory and with test of common knowledge and critical thinking so more clever people would have more powerful votes to safe country from Kremlin sheep.
Yes, they are watching you and know the players. They are all working to steal you national entities, make you pay taxes and enslave you.
Starostové and TOP 09 are swapped in the seat distribution at the beginning. TOP 09 can only dream about having 33 seats. To be fair, SPOLU coalition only exists to keep TOP 09 and KDU-ČSL in chamber since many predictions say neither of those 2 parties will reach the 5% threshold. No big hate intended, it's juat a fact.
Yeah, imagine having policies made by Christians with less than 2 %. They will leech onto anyone in power, what a disgrace.
This is a very accurate view on the Czech politics?
Do you have a native Czech writer for this?
If not that you have done an outstanding job making sense of out sh*tshow
Exactly!
l live in Czech Republic and this was amazing!
Oversimplification. But people are indeed very unhappy. I didn't vote for the SPOLU coalition, but even though at first I was aligned with what they said they'll do, they turned out they act oblivious to any criticism and it was pretty much downhill for the past six months. I don't want to vote for ANO, because their policy of giving money to anyone who cries loud enough at the cost of lending and squeezing money from outside will bankrupt our country in the long run (despite now being very anti-EU, Babiš and his companies took advantage of the EU subsidies, even if he doesn't want to admit his ownership of the companies and the misappropriation of EU subsidies was promptly swept under the rug), SPOLU promised to be better, more transparent and fair than ANO and failed. Now it even seems like the old ODS thing of having powerful friends whose companies get the government deals is still very much alive. The housing digitalisation, for instance, had been planned to cost four times as much, but Pirates found a cheaper option that would cut off friends of the ODS, but the problem was they did it too late to meet the deadline, also it coincided with major changes in the housing law, which sparked problems in the housing departments in city councils across the country. Pirates didn't communicate well, and until they failed at the most recent elections, they didn't voice any discontent with whatever was happening behind closed doors. And when it came out, they acted like children and resorted to name calling.
They all are turning out to be hypocrites, that's what's the most frustrating thing, there really isn't an option of a competent party with long term plans and concrete ideas how to solve the current issues and modernize our country, which is drowning in 90s style bureaucracy.
Another correction - the weed decriminalisation (technically new legal system for 'less' harmful psychoactive substances that is neither complete prohibition nor totally unregulated market that anyone including children could access, the instalment of which was mainly triggered by overdoses on kratom and HHC) is still underway, even now that Pirates are out of the government. The main problem is Pirates are seen as junkies, while people from other parties claiming to be anti-drug have been caught with cocaine and such.
The Gay marriage initiative is seen as failure by liberal voters, because it didn't manage to fully equalize the status of 'registered partnership' with marriage, in terms of the range of rights.
The new version will extend some of the rights. There were obstructions by conservative politicians and certain Christian organisations (funny, in a mainly secular society).
I think we have much bigger problems, yet we instead waste time arguing why the other side is mentally ill, or neo-marxist, instead of focusing on solutions.
The general stuff he got right. Missed lot of stuff about how current government heavily targets Babiš. Passing law meant against him, silencing him and etc. Babiš used to be a great politician, but since he became prime minister, it went down hill. Becoming more populistic. But even that said, in his last two terms, excluding covid, he and his political party did great.
When he was financial minister, we actual had plus budget. He has huge support due to lot of his good decision, it is true that decent amount of his voters are old people, but majority are 30-50. Meanwhile current government got lot of young voters on nice promises, which none of them they kept, they promised they wont raise taxes and reduce government spending, they raised taxes twice and government spending increased. That pissed people the most. They didn't fulfil ANY of this pre election promises, which is impressive how you fail that hard, but also sad. They are the worst government Czech Republic ever had. And they still believe they did a great job, which is insane.
Czech Republic has in its constitution guaranteed free speech, yet this government made ministry to fight "disinformation," that means they prosecute anyone who goes against what government deems wrong. Fortunately they soften up their approach, maybe due to election coming up soon and they don't need anymore bad rep. But there are still people in jail for what they said. Which is insane.
And for our president, he is a green head. He used to be agent of communist party, before socialistic regime gave up. He swapped coats really quick into NATO, so that is why people don't trust him at all. On top of it he is just a huge yes man for current government and he will be for the next as well. He is coward, he says he doesn't like and disagrees with laws which are passing, but he never VETOS anything. Sure Zeman was rough and not really great as visual representation of a head of state, but he was, in his first term, honest and not just some useless muppet.
Now we have nice visual presenting president, but as politician he doesn't exist. If I compare Miloš Zeman to something, he is Country bumpkin with straight head. And that makes Petr Pavel Impotent playboy.
I never voted for Babiš, but this year I went over our political scene since 1990, and I have to say, best performing government was ANO+CSSD, so I will give ANO another chance. Covid is over and they chance to show that they can do it.
And the worst political choice since 1990 was and still is consistently ODS, they always do so much damage to economy. Absolute chaos in their decision, appointing incompetent people in posts, they definitely SHOULDNT ever occupy.
Henry of Skalitz should run the country.
Frankly, calling upon his ghost and flipping a coin for government decisions would be improvement at this point.
JINDŘÍCH NÁS ZACHRÁNÍ
Henry´s come to save us
"Hey! Henry's come to see us."
Imagine Henry challenging Fiala in Babiš in Rattay Tournament.
9:03 Slovakia confirmed, not Czech Republic, that Babiš wasn't knowingly an informant for STB (secret police). But he was informant, he stated this in TV himself couple of years ago. And his statement in TV talkshow even suggested that he was aware of this.
You should add it was Slovakia currently led by a pro-Russian prime minister Fico who has recently been featured on a famous Russian propaganda TV show.
Nemyslím že niekto z nich vie čo je ŠTB
@@TeacherZdenek sure Fico is "pro-Russian" yet signs anything PRO USA that comes in ... Fico plays all sides to get the most amount of money to steal. He is not PRO any side, he is PRO his own money. On the other hand, current czech government is very PRO- USA, pro usa leftist shiat and so on - ideas that are results of how bad USA and world now has it. What countries need is politicians that are PRO THEIR COUNTRY, not PRO USA or PRO EU or PRO RUSSIA or anti of any of these.
Slovensko nic takového nepotvrdilo, ale uzavřelo smír na základě politického příkazu, kde to odůvodnili tak, že kdyby se Babiš se Slovenskem soudil, možná by vyhrál. Soud o ničem nerozhodl a nebýt u moci Babišův kamarád Fico, tak takový smír nikdy uzavřen nebyl. Babiš byl estébák a sám to přiznal u toho Krause. Není o čem debatovat :))
You absolutely can be an informant without knowing it. Any individual, who, knowingly or not, provides information to an operative of an agency, is considered to be an informant.
Job well done. From the main points to pronunciation of Czech names. Easy to understand the lines drawn. Perfect, TLDR!
I see that you improved a lot in knowledge of Czech politics and pronunciation. This video is well made with enough context that's needed. Great job 👍🏻
Only one thing: since you're renaming names of the parties and coalitions in your infographics (ex. Spolu -> Together) you can also at 3:47 rename ,,Přísaha" to "Oath".
It's difficult to articulate how distant and uninterested the Pětikoalice ("Five-coalition") feels to the average voter. They seem to be unable to communicate their policies to the general public, admit failure, recognize the situations they are in. The Czech feel a deep distrust towards elites, which makes for a fertile ground for populists. Pretty much everyone expects ANO to win the next elections.
It's not about articulation. The just blatantly lie, often do complete opposite of what they promised and also try to smear and silence any opposition or disent, despite the fact that censorship is prohibited by law. They sound more and more like late 80's communists, hence meme videos about Fiala and Jakes.
Co je větší populismus, než slibovat německé platy za pět let? A ten ,,ftípek" o nezvedání daní a tečka, další je taky velmi ,,výživný" nebudeme zvedat věk pro odchod do důchodu a tečka. Hošane, kdyby za každou lež Fiala dostal facku, tak dnes už nedýchá.
Word "Populist" is thrown around so much that anybody who joins politics now is populist. Reincarnaited Hitler born in Czech Republic would be called populist cause he would be appealing to some.
Since ANO got in power in the past they showed in numbers how they can handle country finances. Until Covid came they were doing outstanding work. But COVID fckd up most of the countries. SPOLU used this situation and did get in power by rigging elections only to do fck all.
Babis is much closer to Czech citizen then any member of SPOLU. He is basic human. That is what we needed. That is why he hated old parties acting like Mafia and rulers. That is why we had secure country for so many years. Not some pro active EU-woke licker who is trying to please all and be a Hero by sacrificing its own citizens.
We needed old grumpy person passive to problems of other countries only wanting benefit for its own.
That is why his firm was succesful and why country would be succesful under his leadership.
Now we put mentally disordered people who cant manage their own on pedestal. Tell people how to live and deal with their own problems while pulling chair from under their feet.
What are you talking about? Our glorious government fulfills the plan at 93%, the economy is doing great, people are happy and when the greatest prime minister lifted his head after kissing the shoes of the EU leaders, they petted him on the head and said "good dog", which means we are respected internationally now.
24% of Czechs saying that they trust the government genuinely seems way too high lmao
I thought it was only 4%
Well, Im one of them, definitely more than populists :) .
I trust them.. to do precisely the opposite of what would be the most logical next step. Does that count?
I think the main issue here in Czechia is that we dont really have someone to vote because most of the parties arent really great, the former government party and the ruling coalition isnt that great too, they are the most popular ones in polls, so we need a new party that would do something about the situation, because we dont really want to vote for populists and the ruling coalition, which we thought will bring better living standards but they didnt satisfy us and didnt do much.
There are good political parties but they are just too small with little chance of winning because people don't believe that they could win or simply don't know about them. I also voted for a party that I thought will succeed in the last election which was a mistake on my part. Just vote for any party you want, that's the only recipe for some change.
Except that historically the new party is always the one that sucks the most and eventually self-implode.
Pirates are alright. They'd be a good start as our only somewhat non-corrupt political party. Sadly, our (truly just) self-called "intelligence" keeps voting ODS year after year after year. And ODS keeps showing us again and again. And they keep showing us just how corrupt they are. Again and again and again.
"Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is? Insanity is doing the exact... same fucking thing... over and over again expecting... shit to change..."
We really don't need any new party. That has been a disaster every single time. From VV, to ANO, Trikolora, Úsvit, one worse than the other.
5koalice a Babišova strana ANO vedou stejnou politiku. Jediná naděje u nás je SPD a Stačilo!
Living in Czech Republic for last 2 years, it is painfully obvious that this country needs digitisation. There is still a lot of outdated bureaucratic processes here, one which I found the most amusing was the translation stamp/string on paper. Digitising construction was a right step to be fair, even if it was handled badly? In the long rung, this will save a lot of taxpayer money, reducing the amount of clerks and other government staff needed.
But, a lot of pensioners will tell you that it doesn't do anything for them, meaning they are against it. And since pensioners are majority that's voting, we won't have it for the next 5 to 10 years :/
@@inao-czThis is a failure to communicate with them. If you explain our well-bellowed senior citizens, that every minute of our time spent on bureaucracy instead of earning money, means lower pensions for them, they may think differently.
@@Чех-б2ю I cannot say anything against this, because it's true. However, some people are stubborn much more, I personally had this conversation with my grandparents. They will tell you "But I'm not using smartphone and I need something once every three years, so it's not useful for me". Yes, this is indeed an extreme case, but there are people like this.
But yes, we have really big problem with "selling" achivements here, our government isn't communicating enough about what they've done and why
It's about perspective. I got here 15 years ago and things have improved across the board 1000percent since then. Things aren't perfect but it's making good progress.
Its far more difficult to do it right, I always do it personally and it works best as you can communicate and resolve pretty much anything if you have good attitude and people are more likely to help you rather than via email or other electronic means.
India 🇮🇳 stands with the Czech Republic 🇨🇿 in these difficult and turbulent times. 🇮🇳❤️🇨🇿
Shut up, no one was asking
Thank you! As a Czech I support your country too in more turbulent and very bad times ❤
Thank YOU ! Sending Much Kind Great regards ! and Good Will for India !
The country isnt in that difficult and turbulent times lol. What would 2/3 of world countries give for having our "turbulent" times hah
Hoši, už aji indiání ví, že jsme v prdeli 😭
As Czech it is really interesting to see how other people see us from outside. Nice video. And You did really well with Czech names, pretty impresive.
The problem, as I see it as a czech citizen, is that this government was basically like to Torries, right wing, conservative government pushing for austerity. This made lots of people angry, but the problem is there is no left wing party like Labour left, so they all get sucked up by the populist oligarch Babiš, who only got radicalized over the last few years and now is close to Orban and Fico. It looks like dark times ahead for this country. I have no idea who to vote for as a social democrat ideologically, the Pirate party I used to vote for decided to "move aggresively to the center" and abandon all its values and promises. It now wants to focus on deficit reduction and economic growth, basically a center right neoliberal agenda. Not a single word about issues like climate change or the housing crisis, which concern voters like me. Unfortunatelly, there is just no alternative, the Greens in this country are weird and dead, with just 1.5% support. But I am not voting for the Pirates again, I feel betrayed by them, and their new leader feels like and arogant asshole.
Maybe start your own party? Seems odd that 10% of people want to vote for a car party but there's no social democrat party.
Labour parties operates on a failed premise that there is someone like educated working class citizen. People like that don't exist. Average working class citizen is eneducated ignorant who vote for billionaire populists. Labour parties are finished. They are history now.
This exactly. I'm on the same boat as you. Like 99% of the government is right wing or right leaning parties, there's basically nothing to choose from.
After the ČSSD died and most of their voters got stolen by ANO, the Pirates were the only left-ish leaning party left, which could realistically get elected, but now that they failed to deliver on pretty much everything and decided to shift right, there is noone left. I'm gonna probably vote for SOCDEM in the upcomming election, because while them being elected isn't all that likely, I really don't feel like there's any better choice at this moment.
Thank god we don't have labour, I don't like authoritarians too much.
Naprosto souhlasím, vůbec netuším, koho volit. Volila jsem piráty a plánovala jsem pro ně volit dál a možná k nim i vstoupit, ale Hřiba nezkousnu. Socdem bych to možná i hodila, ale realisticky, dostanou se tam…? Takže by to asi dopadlo tak že bych to se skřípánim zubů hodila SPOLU. Jediný co vim určitě, je že nechci Babiše. Přemejšlim dokonce jestli někde nezorganizovat lidi jako my, jít mluvit s ostatními a aspoň zahájit dialog… fakt nevim, co dál
Why was the Lithuanian election not covered? Because I couldn't find any coverage on this channel from that.
As a Czech citizen myself I really don't need anyone to explain to me why the government is unpopular 😀.
But it's always good to get some outside perspective and you did a really good job describing the situation. I still have no idea who to vote for next year.
At this point, Almost all governments in europe face this issue, which will cause economic and political instability in the long term, except in Italy.
I am an Italian living in Prague. Giorgia Meloni gained popularity due to her opposition to Draghi government. She still enjoys her successful moment but it might not last for long. Historically in the last 30 years no majority coalition was ever able to win two elections consecutively.
We will see in next years if she will be able to consolidate the advantage.
KO has actually solidified its support since it took power in Poland. PiS isn't coming back anytime soon, maybe ever. Konfederacja might be annoying, but short of our country collapsing they will neevr take power. We're looking at at least one and half a decade of rule by left liberals
yeah but situation in Czechia is insane bro. Never saw here so unppopular goverment.
As an Italian: Italy has a specific post election government popularity pattern:
-Leader X wins the elections
-Enjoys 1,5-2,5 years of EXTREME popularity in the polls
-after that, the pols start collapsing quite quickly (best example of this is Matteo Renzi in 2014-2016 or Salvini in 2018-2019)
-By the new elections leader X is extremely unpopular
(The almost only exception to this rule is Berlusconi)
Italy is really poor.
USA is the richest and best country in the world.
I commend the nearly perfect pronunciation of the Czech names and words. It's truly appreciated🥰🥰
Although Fiala isn't great... I can't imagine in how big of a hole would we be if Babiš was dealing with the Ukraine crysis and Fuel crysis we had...
based on the "solutions" he proposed and how they worked in other countries, we would be having blackouts or astronomical government debt by now. While debt created by this party aint much better either, it is still half of what we would have.
I think it's bad that he was is STB you can search what is it
@@motivationcentraledu I don't have to I'm czech myself so I know...
@@tomassoban1229 aha kurvy chlast a chlebíčky to jsou naše koníčky
@@motivationcentraledu já jen chlebíčky ale děkuju...
1:26 Translation of ANO as "yes" is correct, but it is actually an acronym for Akce Nespokojených Občanů, which means "Action of Unsatisfied Citizens"
Babis is Czech Orban, except he has more money
I'd rather have an Orban than a Scholz
if Trump and Orban had a child, that would be Babiš
No, he's not and that's his biggest trick. He pretends to be Orban (because he knows that doing your country first politics is popular today) but he's still DC/Berlin puppet just like Fiala hahahah. Comparing him to Orban is an insult to Hungary. That's why we're doomed, we'll get another 4 years with this master liar...
He is not even Czech, he is Slovak and Czech people absolutely hate his accent, he speaks mix of Czech and Slovak, I would be more happy if he spoke just Slovak which is his native language. Some people actually asked Czech language officials about if Babiš can speak Czech (because by law, Czech politician must be able to speak Czech) and their answer was like "His language is unique, but we can consider it Czech." 😀
@@PidalinSeems like you have some personal problem with the Slovaks and not just Babis 🤔
But I honestly wouldn't be surprised Czechs are known (by outsiders also) that you you are a bunch of arrogant self centered people.. andrej babis will be your next prime minister, deal with it. And don't bother typing with me about over government and Fico because I'm not interested in whatever you have to say.
Just a slight correction on Babiš' status as a communist informant, the relevant archive in Slovakia still acknowledges him as one but the populist (and Babiš-aligned) Slovak government decided to settle a court case about the matter without the court reaching a final conclusion.
The archivists say that he was an informant without any doubt and also the trustworthiness of the former StB agents that testified that Babiš wasn't an informant has been heavily questioned.
Everyone, literally everyone in former Czechoslovakia,who worked and traveled abroad had to cooperate with the StB and provide information about his travel. Everyone. It was obligatory. Meanwhile, the current czech president entered the Communist party deliberately, he was a member of the military intelligence, yet the voters are perfectly fine with that 😂
@@ShaddieDiab If you look at what Ústav pamäti národa has on him you'll find out it's a *lot* more than just travelling.
As for Petr Pavel, he's honest about his past and isn't actively undermining democracy.
@@LuckaKaresova are you sure Pavel is not undermining democracy? Literally everything he's done so far was not in the interest od czech people. As for his honesty about his past - he was a deliberate communist and he left the party only after the revolution. There's no excuse for that. It is totally unacceptable for this man to be head of state.
Except it is well known, that those supposed StB archives are unreliable, so it is reasonable to take what "they have on him" with more than just a pinch of salt.
Amazing and unbiased sum up. So refreshing to hear actual news. Truly astonishing.
Fiala is not great, however he didn't screw it up more than Babiš, who is only interested in his money and protection. It is interesting that he is supported mainly by the poorer population, even when the pension reform is voted on, he shops in Milan and that's not to mention history.
@Minimmalmythicist Yeah, but who to vote for? I'm still deciding
@Minimmalmythicist Why? Do you know the history of communism in the Czech Republic?
@Minimmalmythicist Are you crazy? 😀 They are totally irrelevant party anyway, they created their coallition STAČILO with other similar parties to earn more votes together. Which is the same thing that ruling coallition SPOLU did, so I am just saying..... 😀
@MinimmalmythicistLol. Commies are responsible for 90% of the shit and degradation that happened to Cz in latest history. Its like voting for Nazzis in Germany 😂 also in my opinion true socialism/communism is a shit and always eventually leads to hell. Dont you have like 3731 examples from the world of countries that tried xx versions of socialism->communism and NONE of that lead to anything good, no matter if it was Soviet version, Cuban version, Chinese version, Venezuelan version, Arab version and so on....
@Minimmalmythicist They are MLs...
Doslova v politice nemáme nikoho normálního, kdo by se mohl stát premiérem nebo obecně, být prostě ve vládě. Cirkus...... Ale pořád lepší než na Slovensku
No neviem nemáte nikoho koho voliť a ani my. Možno keď vyhrá okamura s babisom to budeš vidieť inak
@@adam_138 Tyvole už konečně korunujte tu Čaputovou, ať tam zůstane na stálo
fakt? v čem to je na Slovensku horší? jako že mají levnější elektriku a plyn?
a prosím, kecy o svobodě a demokracii si nech pro někoho jiného
a potřebuješ aby ti někdo vládnul?
Overall very accurate.
3 things:
1) Pirates failed, but it was more of a sabotage by ODS, as ODS was very likely bribed by the companies that were supposed to do it, but Pirates took that away and they didn't like it.
2) EU Embezzlment charges were dropped locally, EU still wants more investigation afaik and wants the money back. Not sure what happened there afterwards, but the point is that the embezzlment still happened, just officials (that were appointed by Babiš) dropped the charges.
3) He still is a registered communist informant, he just struck a deal to end a series of lawsuits.
Misinformation.
1) This is a Pirate narrative, not a proven fact. While it is possible, Bartos pretended to the last minute that everything is great. They are notorious for blaming everyone around with no proofs at all, see for example Richterova's conpiracy theory about Martin Kuba.
2) Charges were not dropped, he was ruled innocent by Prague Municipal Court.
3) False. The deal was struck by Slovak ministry since it was clear they do not have solid case and will most likely lose and pay. They also lost two previous court rulings, but previous government kept it going for propaganda purposes. This is again a progressive media narrative to keep the smear.
He was registered by STB, but the records are generally considered as unreliable and it is known that people were often added to record just so their supposed handlers could check in money. Refer to Jan Schneider, former BIS analyst.
ad 1) That's not true, that's Bartoš's one-sided statement. Back in May, he claimed that the system was ready for testing and there would be no problem launching it in July. On the contractor's website (inQool) in mid-July there was already self-praise for a successful project, not a single mention of a single problem. The accusations of sabotaging ODS only came in the fall after he failed the digital rollout and was kicked out of the government for it. For me, a blatant self-defense and inability of Bartos to admit his share of the blame.
@@louvalou5317 actualy not - Dostalova from ANO gave the ODS donors the 2 bilion deal - which after that Bartos scrapped. Of course they were angry and then constantly challanged every his step to the Antimonopol agency, that is controlled by ANO people. Every scammer from all parties are connected together and there is no way out
1)That is a conspiracy theory and even if it was true, it would not change the fact, that it was Bartoš¨s fault.
3) "An informant" does not mean what you think it does.
One thing that is missig here is the media landscape in Czechia : Babis' holding was the owner of the largest newspaper publishing house (and buoght a few other's in addition) making Babis a media mogul. He sold the newspapers recently, but the same totally devoted people are still working there. His editors are invited to TV discussions as independent commentators. He also managed to build a large social media influence and has basicaly unlimmited possibility to spew lies, manipulations and shameless slander, which he abundantly does. In this way, he became a love brand for large parts of population who just bite and repeat every phrase he decides to spread. Hence- the hatred towards the government, public media, or anybody who dares to critise Babis and his business, is widely accepted as the truth. The goverment parties just seem to be helpless in facing it.
Not true. Campaingn against Babiš was multiple times bigger - for example Babiš "had" 1 obscure TV station (Barandov), so called "democrats" (5 koalition) had the rest. People are/were just fed up of Sobotka's stupidity and now are fed up by Fiala's government incompetence and corruption. What Fiala did with gas and electricity is near treason.
@@seriousjan5655And you're telling me Babis was competent in handling covid? And he didn't have multiple corruption scandals?
That just sounds so much like Bulgaria.
Nha I hate the governmant without Babiš telling me to. Altough I agree with him being an oligarch that influences public through lies and propaganda, its nothing new and nothing liberals can really fix anyway.
@@seriousjan5655Yes, he tried to distance us from Russia, which is treason of highest form you pro-russian Dezolát 😂
Well summarised, accurate and balanced, too. Oh, and I've noticed you now pronounce Czechia correctly. Thanks!
Looks like you mixed up STAN and TOP 09 on the graph at 0:19. STAN has 33 deputies, and TOP 09 only has 14
I live in Prague and utilities are insane!
Eventhough I hate Babiš quite a lot and in my opinion, he belongs to jail more than many people, that are currently locked up (f.e. the case mentioned in 6:44 - he, one of the richest people in Czechia, got away with stealing 50 mil. CZK of taxpayers money), at this point, I would prefer any government to be in charge for at least 12 years (maybe except for communists, they got 41 years in helm already and they screwed this country beyond repair). It might not walk in the direction I would like to see. But currently, our country is walking in circles. Heading in literally no direction. The lifetime of each government is 4 years max. First business of each new government is to cancel whatever the old government did. And first business of each oposition party is to sabotage the winners of elections as much as they could. Literally every party does it. The results? Nothing ever gets done, no changes are happening, public finances are in shambles and citizens/businesses can't rely on anything.
yep, its like
"we have a new economic plan that will take 6 years"
"we cancel it and have a new economic plan"
"we have the only good economic plan"
Media always talks about millions stolen by people who oppose the globohomo european establishment, and never about the billions amd trillioms siphined out of your country as a result of treasonous policies, international corporations and interest paid directly to banking cartels.
Czech budget isnt "missing" 50 mils bro. True price of these "selected" puppets who wave every flag but our own, isnt few nillion they steal, but treasonous policies they enact on behalf of lobbyists.
I have to say that I'm pleasantly surprised by your pronunciation of Czech names and titles, I'm glad to see that someone is trying to do it and I wish you the best of luck in your future work✨
Can confirm. Very solid report. Great job!
A fantastic portrayal of the current Czech political landscape! I'm genuinely impressed. It's unfortunate that the Pirate Party has been unfairly targeted by the ODS and media regarding the digitalization of building permit systems, especially considering that an ODS member benefits from the old system and actively hindered the implementation of the new one. Despite this little flaw, the video is exceptional. 👍
Why does a landlocked country have so many pirates?
we have port in Hamburg, so don't underestimate our fleet 😀 also, Czech people were important part of Austrian navy before 1918, mostly steam engine engineers and stuff like that
@Pidalin Czechs sailing with impunity down the Elbe
It's heartwarming to imagine Hitler seeing that and crying
This situation did not last for long. I am one of those who keep leading the "anti-pirate raids" since 15th June 2021. In the first part (parliament election 2021) they lost 18 mandates. Simply: They dropped from 22 to 4 (from 10,79 % to 1,69 %). And even in other types of election they keep losing a lot of mandates (communal, senate, european, regional). And I will not stop with these anti-pirate raids until the end of Autumn 2026.
@TomtexCZE Thank you for your service, sailor.
@@SeverusFelix You are one of those very few who thanked me publicly. On the internet I meet mostly the silent citizens who are on the same side but do not really thank me, or the traitors who are against the common czech folk values and they insult me.
"Give me four another years and you will have the German wages."
- Petr Fiala, November 17, 2024
😂😂😂
We all know that these are just empty promises, but I'm honestly curious how he would do that - Like, does he think the companies are just gonna start paying their workers more ? or does he plan to go full on comrade mode and just raise the minimum wage and force the companies to pay their workers more somehow ? He's from the pro business party. Like what ?
,,Four more years and you'll have German wages'' is genuinly a baffling statement.
He has nothing to do. He is just betting, that german economy will fall on czechian level. If that happens he is correct, but with no improvement for Czechia.
@@gisbertvonromberg2227 German economy falling to Czech level would likely hit Czechia hard, so that does not work either
Fiala is a political scientist yet he's still somehow capable of saying bs like this. This guys has no clue about basics of capitalism hahah. The reason why Czechs have much lower wages is simply because Germany needs to maintain their high wages hahaha. EU is nothing but continuation of nazi concept of Germany taking over Slavic countries. The only difference is they did it by economic means, not by force...
hey maybe there wil be a economic collapse in germany you never know :D
As a Czech who ceased following our political news about a decade ago, thanks for the summary. Cheers!
As a Czech, I gotta say that the video is correct and your pronunciation of Andrej Babiš sounded like from native and the other names were also pretty good I would say that it’s the best I’ve heard from an English speaker!
My main issue is that Czech wages are low. They are so fucking low, looking at US software engineers who make 4x of what I make on average just makes me feel despair. And they are not growing, like at all. Living here for 10 years now and still not getting citizenship (in Germany you can get one in, like, 4 years), I am full of sunken cost fallacy, and can't just leave for the greener pastures, especially with whole family to feed.
If your salary didn't grow in last years, then you should probably change your job, I have almost 3 times more than when I started working in 2012 in the same company. Ofcourse I moved to better paid place over time, but even in the same position, my salary almost doubled in last like 5-7 years and now we also work much less hours than before, so it's even better in reality. I am not saying our salaries are great, it's still not enough with our prices, but you can't say it was not growing in last years.
1) Nobody in Europe makes even close to US wages in software engineering, other than maybe Switzerland.
2) No you can’t apply for a citizenship after 4 years in Germany. It was 8 until very recently. Now I think it’s 6.
3) Where are you from and why did you move to Czechia? Were the salaries better when you were moving? How was the difference to your country.
@@janlanik2660 "Nobody in Europe makes even close to US wages in software engineering, other than maybe Switzerland." Ehm....Germany, Iceland, Norway, Denmark, UK, France, Sweden, Finland........they are all richer or on the same level as US, don't tell me that they earn less as software engineers.
And only reason why people move here to Czechia is that they work online and still having western salary and they just want to live in cheaper country, other reason doesn't exist.
But the salaries, especially in IT are something that the government can't do much about. The main issue is that many people are still mentally stuck in 90's and early 2000's, even in IT companies. It will take at least another decade before that generation will leave executive positions in companies.
@@MrToradragon Exactly, after we got rid of some older bosses in our company, things started improving pretty fast, their mentality is what slowers us and make our gdp per capita worse. I'll give you example - you have two options - to buy thing for 2000 eur that will significantly improve your productivity or work saturdays and overtime to finish your work while working not efficiently.
What do you think older boss will choose? Invest to improve efficiency or force you to work overtime? Try to guess.
After these people ended, nothing is problem anymore, even when I ask owner himself, he is like "Why are you asking me? Just order it when you need it" which clearly shows that these older bosses were sabotating it even behind owners's back and he didn't see it.
fact check: Andrej Babiš is still registered as a comunist informant in Slovak Ústav paměti národa (Institute of National Memory). However, he made deal with Slovak ministry which claimed that Babiš is registrated unfairly. The issue is that he is still registrated as one and he had even publicly admitted to that.
The merit is not what is in the document, but whether that document was true and what he did in practice.
Since those documents are known to be unreliable due to corruption (ref. ex-BIS Jan Schneider) and court already twice ruled in favor of Babis and case analysis predicted another loss and payments by Slovak ministry there is no proof of shady deals.
From a perspective of an ordinary Czech citizen I see it this way: no matter how good or bad this government would be, around 1/4 to 1/3 of the population would hate it anyway. Its mostly consisted of parties synonymous to people from Prague and other big cities, most of whom live detached from the reality of people from poorer regions / working class in general. They inhereted chaos caused by the Babiš government during the pandemic, the war started and brought its own crisis, both of which wasnt their fault, but they added *complete* lack of skill in communicating key (and largely unpopular) things that simply had to be done + addressing things that shape lives of people in rural regions especially during these troubled times, both of which cemented their let-them-eat-cake look. Partly unjust, partly sadly true. The main problem though is that even people who voted for them (and who largely live comfy or at least ok lives) simply dont see the changes promised even without the constant mud throwing the opposition is rather masterful in, and many of them wont vote for them or at all, because there is simply not much to pick from.
I think this is also partly caused because for some reason we’re not used to govern ourselves. We don’t really participate as people. No one who would be competent in ways city liberals aren’t comes forth and tries. Politics is for everyone in democracy, but here it is only for the rich or psychopathic or both. No idea how to change that though. It might be cultural.
"Its mostly consisted of parties synonymous to people from Prague and other big cities" the vast majotiry of Czech high ranked politicians have Moravian accent, nobody is ruled by Prague, we are vice versa ruled by moravians and some villagers.
@@Pidalin Yep, if prague actually ruled, Babis would be irrelevant
@@Pidalin These parties are generally more popular in larger cities, and yes, especially in Prague, which near always the largerst exception in any elections. A politician doesnt need to be from a certain place to gain votes there. ANO and SPD gain voters especially in poorer regions and rural areas, pro European parties tend to be popular in larger cities. Thats just how it is.
@@Adam-g01 I said nothing about Prague ruling anything.
As I Czech I love how you try to pronounce Czech words , you are doing a great job :)
Excelent . Fully Agree with you . And very esteam of your comentarry. Hope, it heard and look mostly realy people in us. J.
Okay but the fact that they're called the Pirate Party is so cool
yeah, they are the only party where you know that everyone supports marige equality, basic human right that we unfutunetly still dont have in czech republic
I think they made a mistake in the video about them tho, because weed is decriminilised in Czechia, but sale etc isn't legal.
@@Harsh-mg2em Thats not true, weed is illegal only if it contain illegal substances such as THC or HHC and so on. So if you have weed with THC it is still illegal.
There are Pirate Parties all over Europe, it's nothing unheard of. It's just that our Pirate Party is the only one that is at least somewhat successful to the point of actually entering the government etc.
@@Pory002 Normal weed has THC in it already.
The Czech political debates are literally just Babiš and Fiala insulting eachother
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Idk if your czech but Fialas obsesion with nutella and rolls is hilarious same for "tukový rohlík"😂
@@SuperMechs-wk6uw He has banner of AGROFERT under his bed and is scared to get out of bed at night.
@@SuperMechs-wk6uw I am Czech
Anyone else remember when TLDR made a video about the Czech president, Petr Pavel, being one of the most popular leaders in the world last year?
well afaik, he still is quite popular and he is actually doing really good. one of the best politicians we have had in a long time. But then again, the opposition's campaign is doing a lot of work. i still remember hundreds of people yelling that Pavel is going to send us to war day one (even Babiš himself was basically saying that). didn't happen and now the people are just making other things up to hate on him, even though he has done nothing wrong...
but yeah, he's still quite popular nevertheless
@@kur3cpalec360 He did nothing wrong, but he also did nothing literally good, he is less and less visible in last months, I almost forgot that he exists.
@@Pidalinits a ceremonial and diplomatic function. He travels, meets with politicians abroad, moderates different events and signs laws (can be outvoted by parliament easily). Hes not manager politician, its rather a highest diplomat and cultural official. I think just this diplomatic and cultural output of his takes like 90% of his work time.. What he has to do he is doing fine in my opinion, if you wish him to be more active in management then we need to change the law to change of meaning of CZ president.
the president is still popular, its the PM that isn't really
@@Aggoenix I agree, but on other hand, in last months, I am annoyed by his absolutely monotone way of speaking and English that is not getting better, he sounds like a robot. Not terrible, but it is still pain to listen him in English. If he wants to be really that representative person, he should work on this, not only in English, but even in Czech, he speaks like when teacher calls you in front of blackboard and you just don't know.
And don't take me wrong, I voted for him.
Great video! 💪🏼 Just small thing. In chart at beginning you switched Mayors (STAN) and TOP09. STAN have 33 MPs and TOP09 have 14 MPs
Really awesome video, but Andrej Babiš is actually still registered as an STB agent, he made a shady deal with the Slovak Ministry of the Interior, which after his lawsuit and subsequent defense said that he was wrongly registered as an agent, although his STB agent file still exists and is valid. (I hope this is understandable because English is not my strongest language.)
Why does he look like old J.D. Vance? 😂
@@ichoboi All morons look alike…
He literally don't
That’s the first thing I thought it’s a crazy similarity
The main problem is that current goverment voters mostly didnt come to the recent polls. They prefer to stay home.
And why should we, if we are being lied to and manipulated? I gave them my vote to do the unpopular thing, only for them to try to be bigger populists than Babiš. Like WTF!
There's nothing to vote for. It's the same all over the western world. The liberal democracy is being overrun by populists, some of them pretty dangerous, because the liberal governments do not seem to make any real changes. People can vote for "lesser evil" only so many times before they are done with it all.
At some point every human being realizes that enough is enough. I will not give my vote to anyone I consider below standards I believe in. It's waste of time and personal integrity.
@@brumleek Even if there was no political party with a real possibility of crossing the minimum threshold that would correspond exactly to your preferences. And I totally understand that you don't want to vote for a party that has no chance of getting in. It doesn't mean you shouldn't go vote. I understand that it is a choice whether one goes to the polls. But I still think that it is better to look carefully at the program of each party and then choose the option that is closest to you, even if you may differ in some details. And even if that was against your heart, then look at the people on those candidates, maybe you know someone and you know that he is a person whose views are close to you. In that case, I advise you. Don't vote that party, vote that person. Some elections allow people to be prioritized on the candidate list. And if enough people like you are found, there is the potential to push the people who are at the back of the list to the front.
Fiala was given a Milei-like mandate for tough choices and austerity. Instead, he made only cosmetic changes and still delivers annual deficits of quarter of a trillion CZK. He alienated a good chunk of his own voters while gaining nobody from across the aisle because why would they vote for the professor governing like Babiš-lite when they can vote for Babiš himself?
I think only the comeback of Kalousek can bring Milei-like policies. I have never liked him as a person but desperate times call for desperate measures.
@@the_kovic Economic austerity measures and shock therapy does not work, the most of economists don't approve it. Argentina's poverty and unemployment are rising because of that, meanwhile inflation is still the highest on the planet and its decline is slowing. Milei politics is the last thing you really want here.
@@SharnLugonn Nope. Kalousek basically ditched such policies in past. Tlusty prepared such program called Modra Sance, but Topolanek with Kalousek ditched it.
1:35 while the statement of “being in government “ is correct, the chairman of the party was “only” a minister 2014-2017, not the prime minister, which is what the statement is implying.
Some simplifications hurt but overall great job!
Only now I saw that the intros are different depending on the country. That is very nice :D
velmi přesně a věcně shrnuto / jen k doplnění, velkou měrou se na celkovém stavu podepsali prodejní novináři, kteří neříkají lidem pravdu a také jsi opoměl na zavedení vládní cenzury, kdy každého s jiným názorem označí (veřejně či neveřejně) jako dezinformátora" nebo přímo za "lháře" ...
Protože pořád fandí čtyř(pěti)koalici
Czech here. It is bit more complex than this. The issue with Fiala is that he is silently implementing green deal and forced electro mobility, which voters who tend to be on the right side of spectrum really don't like. ODS used to be eurosceptic/eurorealistic but today policy especially with in the SPOLU coalition, it is strongly pro "all shit EU". Which people don't like and vote for parties, who are more openly against this eu nonsense - which is Babis or the other "populists" parties.
The funny thing is that ODS voters were never as eurosceptic as the party.
Surprisingly accurate. I wish media (at least the state ones) could report impartially like you do.
Very interesting 👏👏👏
Why is there an entire party for motorists, what 💀
Because of one demented petrolhead and anti-green deal populist named Filip Turek. That's just another sad story, I guess...
It's anti-net zero policies focused party.
They want to turn the country into USA tier car-dependant hell-scape. Why is beyond me.
Why is there an entire party for pirates, what 💀
(I obviously know what the pirates are, it's a joke)
It’s pretty much a right-wing alternative to ODS, whilst being tougher and more radical in their approach to certain issues e.g. Greendeal, migration, military financing and so on. Their EP member Turek made a lot of headlines during election campaign for 1) having a photo taken of him doing the Roman salute and 2) also having Nazi souvenir knife at his home. I’d say his persona and all of the controversies helped Motorists get 9% of the vote lmao.
Here after prime minister said we will have the same wages like Germans, he just need another term to get it for us. Complete joke..
The problem with the pirates is that whenever they try to push real change they are shut down by the government, they tried to make gay marriage legal, government voted against. They tried to digitize the country and they got fired.
Well, gay marriage is bs and the digitalization was done very poorly and it cost us billions.
Fiala was spot on in firing Bartoš.
Actually finally legalizing gay marriages would help us even when I am not gay and it's not directly my problem, but our governments spend too much time (and our money) by speaking about these things, literally years....I am saying make it legal and stop wasting our time and money, we have to care about things that are much more important for our country, like housing crisis, but when they spend half of the year by voting about some gay marriages, there is no time for anything else.
@ thing is the opposition knows their voters and stirring drama around controversial topics like gay marriage is more successful for them than actually fixing any problems
@@pawtistic It's not controversial at all, it's 2024 the hell.
@@Pidalin Yet it didn't pass so in our country for some reason people can't get over it
Tis guy explains our politics better than Fiala or anyone do, well done
There were a few inaccuracies, but overall, a good video with relevant information!
Well, one of the problems is that the prime minister Fiala is at war, while most people in our country are not. He also managed to create an impression that Ukraine and its people are more important to him than his own Czech Republic (not Czechia :-D).
Interesting 🤔
Popularity shouldn't be the thing they should be after. In reality, if you are not popular, you are not likely to get a chance to be somebody important to implement your ideas or policies. That's democracy.
They already implemented some things, but the next government (likely ANO, SPD and maybe the communist party) will revert a lot of those things. So even when you're popular enough to do something good, it's hard to make it last, and if it does, others will take credit for it.
Democracy is good at arguing over issues. Tyranny is good at actually solving them.
@@eavyeavy2864
Or at least at preventing would-be arguers to actually pointing out the issues.
@@eavyeavy2864 You mean autocracy, tyranny is just slavery with extra steps.
Pirates also let our only data sharing website become totally illegal. Of course there were some copyrighted movies etc. but it also contained huge heritage of college books of czech authors i used and now i cant get them by any way.
You ruined my Czech independence day with this video now that you reminded me of our government again
What are you talking about? ANO was a right party and they shifted firmly left on any social issue. The pension valorisation wasn't reduced per se, it was just returned to the previous level.
I know that there surely are many problems with the current coalition in the state government but I believe from experience that with Babiš's ANO 2011 in the power the problems right now would be insignificant then. In the past they always talked very very big but did sh*t about those talked things (I don't wanna say promises) instead when in the state power. Not to mention him and his huge Agrofert Holding still manipulating our media.
One thing is missing. Fiala lies all the time and that’s why he is so unpopular. Before elections he promised to stop growing national debt, not to change retirement age or bump taxes. But he did exact opposite in all of those things.
The dumbest thing is that the new construction system actually works fine. The decrease in new construction is expected during summer. It was designated to iron out issues that are expected when launching new system. But it was a good opportunity for Fiala to point at someone and blame him for not delivering any of the promises he made.
It was a case of scapegoat slaughter, indeed.
? What are you talking about. Bartoš told everyone that it works and don't even need grace period. Now it is apparent that whole parts of systems are missing - even from his explanation. They did not even tried to run that, otherwise they found it does not work at all.
"that the new construction system actually works fine" ---- that is pure lie.
@ It is a bit of an over-statement, but the hysterical reaction of trashing it just because of the “labour pains” (which every such project unfortunately has) was completely undue and one can’t but think that there were indeed purely political reasons, instead of practical.
@@seriousjan5655 And you’re right, such a thing should have been put into test deployment, which should run months in parallel to the current system… That’s how it’s properly done-and that’s what we never seem to do, do we? Remember the new car license plate system fiasco? As a programmer, I really despair when these things happen…
As a czech who watches politics, this is a very good sum-up. Some info in the video is not 100% accurate as some things are more complicated, but completely sufficient for a non-czech viewer. Unfortunatelly a lot of people had huge expectations when Spolu won the election in 2021 and they dissapointed badly. For moderate pro-european center-right voters there is currently no acceptable alternative.
As Czech myself, this is nice information dense video even for me.
Stačilo (Enough), are not a "new upstart party", but a coalition mostly (80+%) constisting of the old communist party KSČM.
This video is excellent 8min summary of last 4 year long shit show. Babiš government enjoyed most its term in a time of global economic peak and a lot of people falsely give Babiš credit for it. Then pandemic hit and Babiš really didn't handle that well. With Fiala came a lot of incompetence, government failed to act on rising energy prices, prioritizing energy giants over its citizens. Where Czech now pay on average 2.5x for energy than they used to. Average family in Czechia is currently incapable of saving any money as its entire excess income is eaten by increased energy costs and inflation. I don't know if situation would be better or worse under Babiš and I don't believe anyone really knows. But it really does not matter. Fiala is the Prime Minister and he is responsible.
"government failed to act on rising energy prices"
Wrong. They didn't fail. They just did what Brusels/DC told them = prioritize Ukraine and foreign private sector over it's own people... it's called colonial relationship...
@@sixmillionaccountssilenced6721 oh stop spreading russian proopaganda, ukraine is absolutely necessary to support
@@Adam-g01 More necessary than the well-being of your own country?
Also Fiala´s ego plays a good role in his downfall, and as a Czech not from Prague, Im here for it.. Maybe in big cities like Prague, Brno or Olomouc things are not that bad, but outside of them people struggle, our family has saved through years. Now we have drained what we have. You were good when the higher bills came, just pay them from savings account, then it came all at once, car problems, bills, higher food prices, more bills and it goes on and on and on. At this point we live from paycheck to paycheck while my parents work 12h a day (my father as dispatcher in railroad working 12h day and night shift and my mother as civil servant in a pension department working 8-12h) and me and my sister as students working on weekend (I work construction and my sister in retail). If I made that kind of money I make now I would be in perfect place 4 years back, now I work just to have little bit of live that I can enjoy.And not just our family. Other complain too, working 9-5 + overtime just to get by.
And Babiš, he is flawed person, but one thing that he knows is economics. And his communist backround isnt much of a issue at this point, If you see Czech president Petr Pavel, he was also in communist party, he is not that diffrent, non of them are. And with Fiala´s latest speach where he said "If we give him 4 more years, our salary´s would be like in Germany and Austria" is prime example of populism. Nobody is good, but Babiš is out best chance.
Super!!!
It's more like vice versa, in Prague, it's terrible, people are living from one salary to another salary. You earn like 25-30 000 CZK after tax and you pay the same money for rent. Now I live in little town 30 km from Prague and people here have much better lives and are much more rich, but they still complain about "rich Praguers" because they don't realize what they have here (houses, 2 cars etc.....). People who envy Praguers should look at what they own first, because in Prague, you mostly own just 4 chairs and TV and you can be under bridge next month after they increas your rent to level that you just can't afford it anymore.
I work as a CNC operator and programmer in village furniture factory and I have better salary than most of people I know in Prague, most of them work in shops and other services and they rely on tips from customers. And instead of increasing their salary, owner will more likely employ another youkrajinians (I am trying to not trigger algoritm by naming that country) or slovaks or something.
In Prague you have pretty much just 2 options: work in shop or restaurant on not well qualified work place where you can be easily replaced by foreign work power
or second thing: have some warm place in some office, but you NEED good contacts to get such place, they will never accept you just like that, even if you have education and experiences, you need contacts and someone who will recommend you, that's how it works in their social bubble, they don't just accept random people from street.
Yeah in Prague it is bad just try living here now. Since war started there is 500.000+ more ukrainians and that is not imaginary number it is reality city is just NOT capable to handle such many people prices of housing etc skyrocketed.
@@prolamer7 Well, housing crisis didn't start with war, but I also have some worry about so many ukrainians here, ofcourse when there is still war, I am patient, but sometimes it's hard to keep patience when you can't even communicate in your native language in your country and half of city is written in cyrillic like during soviet occupation. I don't believe there is just 500 000 of them, it must be like 3 times more in reality, whole villages speak russian now and in local shops, you see just adidas gopniks.
Babiš may know about economics, but people like you, who know nothing about economics and blindly trust the nonsense he says are making the situation kind of doomed.
Babiš is just throwing money left right and center (after taking off his cut of course), because it's popular thing to do and it will earn with votes. He caused inflation rate increase of like 10%, which was unmatched anywhere else in Europe...(By the way, this is the reason your family savings were gone :P - or at least 10% of them).
You should know that debts need to be paid off. When Babiš racks up debt, just so people can live better for 2 years, someone will need to pay it off later.
I just hope I will finalize my plans of moving out before election comes, because I don't want to be the one paying off your fucking debt.
As a Czech person trying my best to get into politics, thank you for this
Wow just wow. There are a parts that are a lot simplified than they should be and I disagree with how I think some parts sound to ppl that are not from CZ but for a 9 minutes video you did a hela good job 💚 thanks for anyone who is not Czech and finished this video!
Czech politics to give you the tldr, the current government is so out of touch with the vast majority of the population that they make Kamala Harris seem like she is right in the middle of the community. They have made a lot of very unpopular decisions and seem tone deaf to the plight of the average Czech. Could this with a leader that has the charisma of a wet mop and you have all the makings of a terrible election outcome of the next elections for the major ruling party.
The opposition has essentially a Trump problem with the media having turned on the leader of the party as he is not as left as their taskmasters (the media in Czech republic just like the rest of the western world is very left leaning mostly due to being owned by the same people as a lot of the rest of the western media) This has resulted in a lot of those that sheepishly follow the media being very upset with anyone that would consider saying anything good about the ANO party or even worse their leader.
The anti media anti establishment sentiment combined with the anti EU views of a lot of especially older Czechs who see a lot of similarities between the EU proposals and the things the communist party was doing back in the day have helped push the ANO party to great hights combine this with them being the only large party that is a credible option for the formation of a government and you have a clear winner of the next elections.
Now personally I do not care for either as both sides of the equation are very much same old same old and have no intention to do anything about the mess that is every day Czech republic with stagnating wages, raging inflation and outrages house prices to name but a few issues plaguing the nation. The main thing to expect from a next government in Czech republic is a slightly more right leaning government, despised by the media and the current president. With the new government mostly looking out for themselves and their "sponsors" instead of the good of the country as that seems to be the way of modern day Czech politics.
It be great to see a credible opposition that runs on a platform of cleaning up the corruption tackling the over spending and getting a grip on the economy so the average Czech can live a bit better life again. Unfortunately the only other parties are as mentioned in the video very limited in scope and mostly single interest parties and as such cannot be considered as viable alternatives to the large parties that dominate the Czech political scene. Lets see maybe in a decade or two a new party will stand up and run on a platform of making the republic a good place to live again but for now I fear we will see more tearing down of the good live in Czech republic.
You basically covered that well, but I will specify some of issues. Czech society can be quite apologetic about personal issues of politicians, but we do not forgive failures and lies. ODS/government promised to become austere, but also cut taxes spending. Also we expected some level of competence in crisis management. While abroad we are now excellent, domestically they failed basically everything. The most obvious failure is energy prices. They should cut of Leipzig stock exchange, semiclose Prague energy stock market (no imports) and shut off gas power plants (which according to EU law would have lowered prices significantly). Same reason is failure of Pirate party/Bartoš. We expected Pirates to be competent in digitalisation which was basically main reason they were elected. Pirate party was labeled as digitalisation party. If you fail in your main agenda and also allow your ranks to be infested with neo-communist you do not bode well with Czech public.
Last but not least. ANO uses populist and high spending policies which bode well with disillusioned people and people on verge of bankruptcy. While in the same time government refuses to take responsibility for their failures being arrogant.
All in all we are in situation which is quite clear. I would hate Babiš government and I will not vote for him, but we basically do not have good alternative.
czechs: “we do not forgive failure and lies”, then proceed to vote for Babiš (who plunged the entire civil service into chaos, oversaw one of the worst handlings of the pandemic in Europe, and lies twice a day…)
@@karelkieslich6772 I am not Babiš voter, but civil service remained basically same and opposition parties wanted to do same as Babiš so that would not help. Czechs wants freedom. Most people wanted Sweedish way without any regards on human lives. We rather die than restrict our freedom.
@@vladimirbrabec69 I don’t think the covid death rate was so much based on a nation’s love-for-freedom (otherwise, Russia, Peru or Bulgaria would need to be the most freedom-loving people in the world) but rather on the incompetence of the pandemic response. I’m a Czech doctor living in the UK and I had inside view of both systems and the governments’ coordination: a lot more Czechs (per capita) died than the British and even though the British government’s response was pretty chaotic too, it pales in comparison with the Czech one. I mean, that’s what you get when you prioritise loyalty over competence and appoint health ministers who have zero experience but are good at agreeing with you. And when you then exchange the health minister four times and change your messaging every month, just chaos. Sorry but that wasn’t some manifestation of the Czech love for freedom, it was a pretty clear example of failure in crisis management. So I don’t find your thesis (that Czechs don’t forget failure) very convincing. However…
However… my view is that the current government is different from Babiš only in scale, not in kind. Mr Babiš wants to control the state for the benefit of himself, he wants to be the top oligarch, milk the state while he can and then retire somewhere in France, and he doesn’t really care what will happen to the country. ODS and these parties want to control the state for the benefit of a small group of smaller oligarchs and “businessmen”, their friends, whose interests they serve; they don’t like the idea of one single top oligarch, they want a plurality of small-scale little oligarchs. But the basic idea that the state is there to secure your business interest is very similar.
They of course differ in the assessment of what foreign policy will benefit them: Babiš has no foreign view on his own, he’ll cynically unite with anyone who will help him get better control of the Czech state, and espouse any view that he thinks can get him votes, even if that goes against key Czech interests. ODS etc realise they need stable EU&NATO for their businesses to thrive, but in a situation where the economy stagnates and people are getting poorer, I can’t blame people for not caring about foreign policy - although it of course should be possible to explain that this is a very shortsighted view.
But on the domestic scene, the government didn’t really present a vision of a strong Czechia that would be growing and helping its citizens. We have pretty fundamental problems with housing, welfare, education, infrastructure and efficiency of the civil service that just need to be addressed. The solutions have been proposed but it seems no one is able to make them happen.
But until we have a party that actually takes it seriously that people need to feel they’re getting richer and have more and better opportunities in order not to vote for a guy who promises them miracles, we will be getting guys who promise them miracles. And like many times, they will get disappointed with Babiš in power soon enough. The trouble is of course that Babiš will try what he can not to leave power this time, learning from Orban and others. But we need to be able to offer an actual positive vision, not just say that anything is better than Babiš. Unfortunately, a lot of people don’t believe this anymore. With grinded teeth, I see this government as better than him of course, but as I said, it’s a difference on a scale, not in kind. And that’s not enough.
@@karelkieslich6772 Nevěřit z ničeho nic lidem jako Beran a pak jsme tlustý, starý bečky. :)
As an expat living in Prague, I really thank you TLDR for this video.
As migrant living in Prague. Stop using this ridiculous name "expat" which only means "I came from rich country so I'm different than other migrants".
Immigrant
@@prkp7248 That escalated quickly. Where is the problem?
@@prkp7248Expat, migrant, foreigner, call me whatever you prefer; it's still me.
P.S. I never said to be better than other migrants. It's just your moralistic thought speaking, not me.
You're an immigrant, even if you work a well paid job. The word "expat" reeks of arrogance
I clicked on the video expecting a completely wrong take on our politics but I was pleasantly surprised - you summarized the issues plaguing our country very well, great job!
Cool thanks for the video
We czechs just like complaining generally
Ticho
ted uz je to really bad
Yeah. I dont really remember a single government that would be popular in my lifetime. Its all the same cycle.
@@jonasptacek3984 I agree.....YOU SUCK!
While the rest of Czechia is struggling with economic crisis, these people suggested and voted for the new regulation against Russian immigrants. From now on, all people with Russian passports cannot apply for Czech citizenship - that's everyone who lived here for 10 or more years paying taxes and contributing to the economy. At the same time, Fiala is surprised about workforce shortage, while people who emigrated from Russia (around 30-40k people) are seriously considering moving from the country which directly discriminates them. What a joke.
It was Russia that put Czech republic on list of unfriendly countries, so what do you expect?
@@xsc1000 I don't think people who lived in Czechia for 10 years (or even 2-3 years) had any influence on that decision, and I'm pretty sure they didn't choose to be born in Russia. I expect that standard background check for everyone applying to Czech citizenship is enough. Also, not sure that I understand why any action made by criminal Russian government should cause European countries to go against EU values and basic human rights, discriminating people just for their nationality.
Aggree if thats true, I am sorry that's wrong decision, people living and working here for serval years should get citizenship. My friend is Russian she got her citizenship earlier this year.
@@eldenarmortem975 thanks for your kind words. Czech parliament had a reading for the regulation I'm talking about today (law Lex Ukrajina 7). They discussed it, but didn't vote, most probably the next chance to vote will be on Friday 22.11.24. So far only opposition is critical about it, and I'm afraid most of the deputees are not aware of the actual reading of the law they vote for.
@@everv0id-u6dYou can easily apply for Czech citizenship, but you must renounce Russian citizenship.
You can't sit on two chairs on the "eve" of a world war.....
Czechs are never satisfied. No matter what government people will complain. Low crime, low unemployment, No big immigration problem, stable economy and people will still think things are terrible. As an American who lives in Prague it’s not really my business what government Czechs choose, but I do know no matter what Czechs will complain.
You have nailed it :)) if only Czech people travelled more around the world, they would have been more grateful for what they have. Personally, I used to study in the US for 4 years and then came back to Prague and I have started to appreciate everything I used to take for granted…
Try asking them maybe. Me personaly, I voted for fiscal responsibility and no tax raises. Got tax raises and budged deficits. I will complain. Just because my country is not Detroit, it doesn't mean I have to accept lower standards.
@@monsterboomer8051a number of my friends worked abroad- London and the USA. They stopped complaining when they came back to Prague.
"Low crime, low unemployment, No big immigration problem"
Imagine using this as some sort of achievement you should be grateful and that's it lol. What a low standard. This should be normal which reminds me of how low we've sunk. Moreover, NONE of this is Fiala's credit. Fiala is actually for more migration and more green politics...
@@sixmillionaccountssilenced6721 Having all of these is extremely rare, if not unique in the world. There's no fence keeping those who look east from living the Ruzzian dream...
I would say that Fiala's hater are really really loud whilst his supporters and people who don't mind him (or at least do not hate) just stay silent. He has a lot of haters (he does what's necessary, not what's comfortable and I would say that he is doing well) that are like "we are 1000 but let's behave like we are 1 000 000".
A am really grateful for your video, it's amazing!❤😊
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This is actually a spot-on report