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American Judge Jennifer Rochon ordered to halt the airing of taxpayer-funded political ads that celebrate President Donald Trump, based on a lawsuit from a nonpartisan citizens' initiative that claims the ads represent political propaganda and do not serve the public interest. #Trump #politickéreklamy #volby2023 (translated)

Ivan Bartoš stated that more than two years ago, as a minister, he proposed a comprehensive reform of the Office for the Protection of Competition. According to him, the office should serve as a tool for powerful individuals to influence public contracts and the flow of billions into their pockets rather than having a control function. He cited its head, Mlsna, whom he described as a favorite of Miloš Zeman and a friend of Zbyněk Stanjura and Blažek. Bartoš wrote that the ODS (Civic Democratic Party) stopped the reform and he subsequently left the government. According to him, the reform was prepared by experts and was meant to bring the Czech Republic closer to Western democracies. Bartoš referred to an index of oligarchs' influence on politics, which he said the magazine The Economist ranked the Czech Republic second only to Russia. He added that in the previous government only the Pirates wanted to address the issue, but Stanjura blocked their efforts. Bartoš also stated that the Pirates have now won the dispute with the company ČEPRO, which had to provide information about contracts for Agrofert. According to him, the company awarded contracts worth over 10 billion directly to Agrofert without competition, and another 9 billion without competition during the government of Petr Fiala. Bartoš added that it is necessary to fight against corruption in the state and that he will continue to do so. #korupce #politik #reforma (translated)

The author of the post wrote that the directors of European intelligence services have publicly warned in recent days about the looming escalation of the Russian threat beyond Ukraine. He stated that the director of the BIS, Michal Koudelka, explained in the Chamber why they took this, in his opinion, exceptional step, and hinted that another strong warning was issued, the content of which the post did not finish. https://t.co/FF7eN8FgvH #Rusko #bezpečnost #zpravodajství #CZ #RU #UA (translated)

Lukáš Valášek wrote that the state-owned company Čepro has paid Agrofert over 19 billion crowns for contracts without a public tender since 2017. According to him, Čepro began to claim that it did not have to hold public tenders after the law prohibiting companies owned by politicians from obtaining public contracts came into effect. Valášek stated that the company has relied on the opinion of the then vice-chairwoman of the Office for Protection of Competition (ÚOHS), who left the office due to suspicions of manipulating decisions in favor of representatives of the ANO party, Jaroslav Faltýnek and Jiří Švachula. According to him, she signed the opinion before her departure. In preparing it, she was supposed to have used documents from the ministries led by Alena Schillerová and Karel Havlíček, which, according to Valášek, downplayed Čepro's exceptional position, even though it is captured in state strategies. According to Valášek, the government of Petr Fiala did not address the matter, and the ministries, now again under the control of Havlíček and Schillerová, do not want to reopen it based on their statements. Čepro also refused to inform him how many contracts it has already awarded to Agrofert under the new government of Andrej Babiš, despite the ÚOHS ruling that the company is subject to the information law at the request of the Pirate Party's analytical team. Valášek added that even the ÚOHS led by Petr Mlsna, whom Babiš appointed, did not see a reason for a review. According to Valášek, the Prime Minister decided whether the government would extend Mlsna's mandate for additional years. https://t.co/O1ekCFdPwn #Česko #politika #korupce (translated)

I tell motorists to start discussing it in the Chamber as soon as possible and to achieve the adoption of the law and the exemption of the public from fees as soon as possible,“ said Šťastný, adding that the change could occur as early as next year. “I assume that public service media perceive that the law is on the table. They should prepare for it, set up financing, and take it into account,” said Šťastný. #KoncesionářskéPoplatky #MédiaVeřejnéSlužby #Legislativa (translated)

"Surely it will not be from January 1, 2027," said Deputy Speaker Patrik Nacher, who is in charge of the public service media agenda in the ANO movement, to Novinky. Whether it will be from July 1, 2027, or from January 1, 2028, that is already a political decision, Nacher commented on this now. #KoncesionářskéPoplatky #MédiaVeřejnéSlužby #Legislativa (translated)

The cancellation of fees for Czech Television and Czech Radio from January 2027 will not take place according to current information from the state budget, while the government is not planning any financial compensation for public service media. #KoncesionářskéPoplatky #MédiaVeřejnéSlužby #Legislativa (translated)

The state company Čepro purchases biofuels from the Agrofert holding without competitions and without public oversight, thereby bringing more than 19 billion crowns to the companies of this holding, while the deals are justified by the fact that the public procurement law does not apply to them. #LexBabiš #Agrofert #korupce (translated)

Zdeněk Šarapatka thanked his supporters and stated that their support helped him get back on his feet after the results of the Senate elections. According to him, the campaign in Prague 5 and 13 was not a fair competition about topics, but a contest over billboards. He claimed that one of the candidates was running a concurrent campaign for the Senate and the Prague City Hall, transferring funds between them, including money from a company building houses. According to Šarapatka, the state supervision office did not respond to the violations of the rules. The candidate, he claimed, received 14,606 votes out of a total of 45,782. Šarapatka also criticized the ODS, which, according to him, despite an agreement with his TOP 09, fielded its own candidate, thereby reducing the chances of defeating Václav Láska. He stated that their candidate hardly presented political positions during public appearances and instead relied on a romanticized story about the students' relationship with the school principal. He added that the students of the candidate's school, according to Šarapatka, got involved in the campaign, even though the principal was balancing on the edge of the education law. The candidate received 12,162 votes out of 45,782. As an earlier example of the split with ODS, Šarapatka mentioned its member Benda, who, according to him, appointed Matocha and Xaver Veselý to the Czech Television Council. He claimed that part of ODS contributed to his failure in the election despite the party agreements at that time. He also recalled that six years ago, at ODS's request, he supported its candidate in the second round of the Senate elections in Mělník, whom he claimed he had not seen publicly appear in the Senate since then. Šarapatka stated that he would not make the same mistake again. According to him, the result meant that there would be no amendment to the lustration law nor security clearances for government members and their deputies, and that there would be no qualified fight for a free Czech Radio and Czech Television. At the same time, he urged his supporters to keep going. #politika #volby #Senát (translated)

The author of the post wrote that the chairman of the Motorists for Themselves movement, Petr Macinka, thanked voters for their votes and announced a plan to organize a mass meeting with them. According to him, the service elevator of the Ministry of the Environment should serve as the venue, or possibly the adjacent cleaning chamber, if all voters from across the country showed up. https://t.co/5RzusdkdoV #MotoristéSobě #setkání #politika (translated)

Jan Betlach stated that on October 10, 1960, then Israeli Foreign Minister Golda Meir offered Arab states negotiations with Prime Minister David Ben Gurion in New York or elsewhere, without preconditions. According to his contribution, she proposed discussions on peace, or at least on a non-aggression pact, specifically reaching out to Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, Jordanian King Hussein, and the Lebanese Prime Minister. Betlach added that Israel, at that time, had a width of only 15 kilometers at its narrowest point due to the 1949 armistice, and the Arab states rejected the offer. One Western European delegate reportedly told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that he hadn't heard a more reasonable proposal in a long time. Betlach wrote that Saudi representative Ahmad Shukairy used Nazi-related expressions twelve times in his subsequent reply and compared Meir to the Nazis. Five days later, according to his contribution, Nasser declared that Israel was trying to deceive world public opinion and that Egypt would never recognize the Jewish state. Shukairy later became the first chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization and drafted its charter, which, according to Betlach, rejected a Jewish state in any borders. Betlach concluded that Meir was only requesting a meeting but was rejected and made the target of comparisons to perpetrators of the murder of European Jews. #historie #BlízkýVýchod #mír (translated)

For a long time, I primarily observed, described, and perhaps commented a bit ironically on public affairs. "Today I have come to the conviction that it is time to take responsibility. I consider the Senate a place where it makes sense to defend the rules, institutions, and values on which a democratic state stands," said the publisher and writer Jiří Padevět earlier. #SenátníVolby #PodporaUkrajiny #Čižinský (translated)

Reports from První Nohy published the question of whether the person in question will call Grulich from TOP09 that evening. The contacted individual responded to the post that he wants to publicly thank Červený, as he got both of them into the first round. https://t.co/BSbTLWicyK #TOP09 #děkujeme #politika (translated)

The author claimed that the USA was buying oil from Russia and publicly acknowledged it in an agreement between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. He also wrote that China and Turkey were receiving cheap natural gas from Russia, while the EU leadership, in his view, refused to buy cheap Russian oil and gas. He referred to some EU officials as idiots and stated that, according to them, the residents of the Union would be willing to pay for expensive gas. https://t.co/05xV2Wtys9 #Rusko #energie #EU #US #RU #CN #TR #EU (translated)

Kuba is delighted with the success of Our Czech Republic in the municipal elections, even though public opinion polls predicted less than two percent, and considers it a positive test before the elections to the Chamber of Deputies. #NašeČesko #komunálnívolby #politika (translated)

Anton Musil wrote that, in his opinion, Witowská actually considered Guasti to be a neutral and unbiased scientist whose political and ideological views did not influence her professional work or public appearances. He claimed she held the same view about sociology as a whole. Musil added that empirical evidence should not affect these views because he did not consider them rational. He compared it to a fish that is unaware of the water in which it lives. #sociologie #věda #politika (translated)