It boils in the YES movement. Vice President Faltýnek may show Babiš his back

“He talked to me about it in the sense that next year, when we have the election assembly, he will probably not strive for the position,” said Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (YES). The possible connection to dubious cases and people eventually meant the end of the original Brno organization.

The presidency of the ANO movement canceled it after a former deputy mayor of the Brno-střed district and a member of the movement, Jiří Švachula, got stuck in the police network last year on suspicion of corruption. Jaroslav Faltýnek feels responsible for the Brno cell because he co-founded it. However, he does not want to comment on his possible end in the party leadership.

“It’s premature, I’m considering a lot of things. With regard to family, health and other things. We have the assembly in the spring, it’s a lot of time,” Faltynek said. But who would replace him is not clear at this time. With the exception of Richard Brabec, there are no more prominent faces in the YES movement.

“It is not at all impossible that it would be Richard Brabec for a simple reason. He is a close collaborator, loyal, society perceives him neutrally, slightly positively. It is possible that he will be one of the candidates. Or for example there will be a shift and Alena Schillerová will join YES, “says political scientist Jan Kubáček. “Believe it or not, I did not think about it at all,” said Environment Minister Richard Brabec (YES).

The new head of the South Moravian ANO is to be Lubomír Wenzl, who should replace the deputy Taťána Mala. The regional organization will then reassemble the recently abolished Brno cell. On Thursday, the YES leadership also approved some candidates for the regional elections. Central Bohemia will again be led by President Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová.

“Regional organizations decide and that is the problem I criticized. As the chairman, I do not talk about it. I do not see it and sometimes things that do not help us much fall out of it,” Babiš said.

“As Jermanová Pokorná has been working in politics for a long time, she has created a machinery of power and works in Central Bohemia as well as Babiš within the republic. Basically no one can do anything with it, so far she has always survived everything, betting on her hippo skin,” he commented President Kubáček.

Question marks hung over her candidacy. Prime Minister Babiš criticized her, for example, because her husband was driving her company car or because of a criminal complaint against an ambulance, who complained about the lack of protective equipment at the time of the pandemic.

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