“As a decent person, he (Fiala) is much more sick than the people I insulted. So far no one was able to send in the perfect solution, which is not strange. It bothers form, I understand. I love that party, he needs me. Who does not understand this, does not have an angel about what PR is. That I am confident and, conversely, I do not understand that it is over? If so, why isn’t it coming? This is the moment that those who do not smell in the party have been waiting for, “he told Novinky.
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Last week, Novotný called the head of the Ministry of Finance Schiller’s “poor estébák girl.” He stated this in response to the approval of the government tax package, which, however, was supported by the YES movement, the KSČM, the SPD and its domestic ODS. However, he himself talks about the consequences of a step on the budgets of regions and municipalities. According to the mayor of the Prague part, he will feel it himself.
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However, as for the reaction of the chairman of the Fiala party, he indicated that this time the possible departure of Novotný is also at stake, which was prompted by the cell of Prague 5. “For Pavel Novotný it is to be considered, he was invited to do so. Let’s not overestimate him, he has no party function, there are bodies that can act. I will not interpret his every statement on the Internet, I am not his spokesman, “ODS chairman told Práva.
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However, impulses about the end of Novotný in the ODS do not come from within the party for the first time. “My exclusion is under discussion where membership does not understand that the ODS will never exclude me, because it will not have to,” Novotný commented on his efforts.
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At the same time, he repeated his words from the January congress that a report from the party chairman or Senate leader Miloš Vystrčil (ODS), whom he respects, is enough, and he will leave himself. “The idea that Petr Fiala indicated to me that I would do it either myself or the ODS is completely out of reality,” he said.
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The end of the dream of the House
However, he answered the question of why he remains in a party whose part is clearly not about his membership rather evasively. “I am frustrated, sad, under pressure from those who pretend they are not affected and not interested, those who are afraid that they will not get into the House due to a squeaky, stupid exhibition time bomb,” he said.
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He thus referred to his parliamentary ambitions. Novotný has made no secret of his desire to run in the upcoming parliamentary elections. “I have to lead the Prague candidate, not beg for the last place. I am the only one who takes the votes of the Pirates here and addresses undecided voters under thirty in Prague, I am a superstar who burns like paper because it is not more pragmatic. Every PR ace with a gun to your head will tell you that in Prague, as the leader of the candidate, I would lead the ODS to the best result, “he said confidently.
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However, he himself reckons that he definitely missed these chances. “I’m doomed,” he said. He thus pointed to the request of the ODS Executive Board, which makes participation in the candidate conditional on a clean criminal record. However, at the beginning of this year, Novotný was convicted for announcing to the police that he was going to assassinate businessman Marek Vít, whom he considered a fraud. The court then fined him over sixty thousand crowns. His lawyer subsequently filed a constitutional complaint in the case.
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However, if he could run, he refuses to act as a soloist on the bench when he gets into a conflict of opinion with the party, as was now evident from his statement on the tax package. “I am loyal, ready to raise my hand with Babiš and the SPD when it comes to something we promised as a party. Although I will be totally in disagreement with it, “said Novotný.
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He wanted to focus on legislation that makes the practice of the mayor itself unpleasant to him. “I am annoyed by the building law, which I think was written by Central Group (development company – editor’s note), and the waste law is great, but a hundred years behind the monkeys, “he says.
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It is not only the party members in the regions, but also the top parties, who will disagree precisely on whether in the future his progress within the ODS, or his candidacy in the next elections, is to be immediately eliminated, or whether he should be immediately excluded.
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Novotný’s prominent opponents have long been, for example, the founding member of the party, MEP Jan Zahradil. “I wish him to be the successful mayor of Reporyj for a long time to come,” he wrote austerely to Novinky.
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On the contrary, the head of the Prague cell, Tomáš Portlík, sees his position in the party somewhat more optimistically, according to him it is mainly up to him. “I don’t think Paul is a man who is uneducated. If anyone has a card in their hand about what their future in the ODS will look like, it’s him. We don’t mind the content of what he says, but the form, “he told Novinky.
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