Zeman is upset that Vystrčil did not respect the refusal of the President, the Prime Minister, the Speaker of the House and the Minister of Foreign Affairs to travel to Taiwan. In an interview with Prima Zeman television, he described Vystrčil’s journey as a “boy’s provocation”.
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Fiala believes that it will no longer be meetings of the highest constitutional officials, but meetings of Zeman’s friends. Not to talk to the President of the Senate, the second highest constitutional official, is already “strong coffee”, the ODS chairman wrote on his Facebook profile.
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On the contrary, the Communists criticize Vystrčil’s path. “The assessment that it is a boy is too conciliatory,” wrote the head of the KSČM Filip. He noted that invitations to political meetings for diplomacy are a matter for the president.
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“Given that Mr. Vystrčil plays individual events and does not respect other constitutional officials, I think it is right,” said Filip.
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According to SPD chairman Tomio Okamura, it is up to the president whom he invites. “The fact is that the trip to Taiwan was Vystrčil’s demonstration in order to address voters with anti-Chinese views before the regional elections, which are taken over by Pirates and other parties of the ODS,” Okamura wrote. However, he believes that many businessmen and voters of the Civic Democrats did not like Vystrčil’s mission either.
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Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (YES) said of Zeman’s decision that he was on the head of state, whom he would invite. “It’s his right,” he said.
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I do not really understand this at this level
Marian Jurečka, Chairman of KDU-ČSL
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“In primary school, I would understand such behavior that the boys expel someone from the party, but at this level I don’t really understand this,” he commented on Zeman’s decision not to invite the People’s Chairman Jureček.
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According to him, the president is now not “kicking” for the Czech interests, but for the interests of the Chinese communists. “The President of the Senate on his way opened the door for further huge investments and trade cooperation between the Czech Republic and Taiwan, which can now help our economy and employment enormously,” Jurečka said.
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Welcome of Vystrčil’s delegation in Kbely, Prague
The chairwoman of TOP 09, Markéta Pekarová Adamová, stated that the president was not surprised. “For a long time, he has been acting as an advocate of China’s interests, and not as the president of an independent and sovereign Czech Republic. His rhetoric corresponds to that again, “she wrote.
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He believes that the senator’s trip to Taiwan will have economic benefits for the Czechia. “A real economic benefit that none of President Zeman’s many trips to China have had for Czech citizens so far,” she added.
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Mayor Vít Rakušan commented on the president’s assessment of Vystrčil’s visit to Taiwan as a boy’s provocation. “While not inviting the second highest constitutional official, who is being threatened harshly by China, to a meeting of other constitutional officials, this is a completely mature reaction of a great Czech statesman,” he wrote on Facebook.
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