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I won’t argue on Twitter, Hamáček said. And he argued

The Czech Republic is one of the countries that sent aid to Lebanon, which destroyed the fastest. Despite the brutal reaction of the domestic government, a shootout between ministries broke out around the sending of 36 firefighters, material and dogs, especially on social networks.

The reason is that the government transported the rescue team to Beirut by plane from the private Czech-Chinese airline Smartwings (which is currently seeking financial assistance from the state due to a coronavirus pandemic).

The Ministry of the Interior defends this step by saying that it was the fastest possible solution – according to the Minister of the Interior Jan Hamáček (CSSD), military aircraft would not take all the cargo and the whole operation would take longer according to the head of the Social Democracy. Hamáček also pointed out that when the Czech state was transporting humanitarian aid to North Macedonia, Casa planes crashed and the cargo arrived a day later. “I didn’t start,” Hamáček defended in the discussion when asked why he points to such things on the public social network.

The military intervened in a heated debate on Twitter, stating that it had not received any official request from the Ministry of the Interior to transport the rescue fire brigade. The soldiers added that their planes would handle the operation without any problems.

The Fire and Rescue Service of the Czech Republic sided with Hamáček, stating that no specific offer had been received by the Ministry of Defense or the army in the allotted time. Hamáček finally stated that army planes can take care of transporting the rescue unit from Lebanon back to Prague.

To a certain extent, the situation from March this year is now repeated. At that time, the Minister of the Interior Hamáček and the head of health care Adam Vojtěch got into their hair in the evening. The subject of the dispute was who and how provided the Czech Republic with respirators and drapes.

As in the spring, there is now a lack of a comprehensive, unified and clear government communication that would explain the issues discussed to the public.

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