The Pilsen region will repair fewer roads than before due to lower revenues. Due to the coronavirus crisis and government measures, according to current estimates, it will probably lose hundreds of millions of crowns in tax revenues, and will not be able to put so much money into road repairs.
Regional councilors have also approved 4.5 million crowns for the Sušice Hospital, the founder of which is the city. The hospital with a catchment area for more than 40,000 inhabitants is facing major personnel and economic problems, and the city has to pay millions of crowns in losses.
Karlovy Vary
The Karlovy Vary region still does not have an elected leadership. Even the fourth continuation of the inaugural meeting of the council on Tuesday did not end in a successful election. The club of 21 representatives from STAN, Pirates, Local, VOK and SNK1 and the club K5 composed of ODS and KDU-ČSL and one representative from SNK1 have not yet concluded a coalition agreement.
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Representatives of the Karlovy Vary region made a promise. However, they did not elect a leadership at the inaugural meeting
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The ODS could discuss the proposal of Club 21 to become Olga Haláková (KDU-ČSL) this week. The meeting of the council will continue on Monday, December 7.
Ústecký
Jan Schiller from the ANO movement became the governor of the Ústí Region. He replaced the communist Oldřich Bubeníček, who headed the region for eight years. YES won the elections in the Ústí Region. The coalition was agreed with the second ODS and the Allies for the region. In a 55-member council, the coalition has 29 votes.
After moving into the office, the new Governor Schiller found a microphone jammer, otherwise also a noise generator. Regional spokesman Martin Volf stated that the inactive, unconnected, morally and technically obsolete device will be disposed of as unnecessary and unregistered material.
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Eight years of communist rule in the Ústí Region ended, Bubeníček was replaced by Schiller from ANO
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The new management of the region then wants to select new directors of the Teplice Museum and Galleries in Louny and Litoměřice. The current three directors of contributory organizations took office on September 1, the former deputy governor Zdeněk Matouš (elected for the CSSD) became the director of the Teplice Museum.
Liberecký
The Governor’s Office in the Liberec Region was again dominated by Martin Půta, who for the third time led the Mayors for the Liberec Region to victory. For the next four years, the region will be led by a coalition agreed by the Mayors with the Pirates and the ODS.
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The court overturned the acquittal in the case with Governor Půta. He upheld the applicant ‘s appeal
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So far, the management has focused mainly on resolving the coronavirus crisis and preparing the budget for the following year. It will help, for example, the zoological and botanical gardens in Liberec and theaters to offset this year’s admission losses caused by coronavirus measures. This year, in connection with the covidu-19 pandemic, the region approved support of up to ten million crowns, more than half of the organizations were exhausted in connection with the spring closure.
Královéhradecký
The leader of the Hradec Králové Region is in the hands of the leader of the coalition of ODS, STAN and Východočechů, Martin Červíček (ODS). The senator and the current first deputy governor for transport and road management at the head of the governor replaced Jiří Štěpán from the CSSD, which ended up in opposition after the October elections. In addition to the aforementioned coalition, the Pirates, the Coalition for the Hradec Králové Region and the Allies for the Hradec Králové Region are also in the lead.
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Reconstruction of hospitals in the Hradec Králové region is a priority, agreed those interested in the governor’s office
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After the elections, the management managed to dismiss the chairman of the holding’s board of directors, Ivana Urešová, who has been leading it since 1 March this year, through the supervisory board of the Hradec Králové Region Healthcare Holding. She could be replaced by the current Deputy Chairman Marian Tomášik, who was already the Chairman of the Board before Urešová.
Pardubický
The Governor’s Office in the Pardubice Region is managed for the third time in a row by Martin Netolický (ČSSD). He ran for the 3PK group – For the prosperous Pardubice region. In the regional government, it meets together with representatives of the ODS with TOP 09, the Coalition for the Pardubice Region (KPK) and STAN.
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YES won in the Pardubice Region. However, the current coalition has already agreed to continue
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The management wants to enter next year with a provisional budget. The reason is the uncertainty regarding the tax revenues of local governments in connection with the approval of the tax package, said Dominik Barták, the spokesman of the regional office, after Tuesday’s extraordinary meeting of the regional council. The Provisional Council will discuss the council on December 15, the regular budget at its February meeting.
Highlands region
Representatives of the regional election leader of the ODS and the Mayors for Citizens Vítězslav Schrek, director of the home for the elderly in Velké Meziříčí, were elected the new governor in the Vysočina Region. He replaced Jiří Běhounek, who was the governor of the CSSD for three terms, in the leadership of the region. Vysočina will be led in the next four years by a coalition of the ODS with Mayors for Citizens, Pirates, Mayors for Vysočina (STAN and SNK ED), KDU-ČSL and ČSSD.
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Vítězslav Schrek from the ODS became the Governor of Vysočina. He replaced Jiří Běhounek
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As part of the solution to the coronavirus pandemic, the new leadership of the region had to ask the army to extend the assistance of soldiers in the Pelhřimov and Třebíč hospitals and the Mitrov home for the elderly until 8 December. According to President Schrek, the Mitrov home still had a lot of infected clients and staff, and all the beds with lung ventilation were occupied in the Třebíč hospital.
South Moravian
The South Moravian Region won Jan Grolich as the new governor of the Christian Democrat. After the autumn regional elections, the old leadership was replaced by a new coalition of KDU-ČSL, Pirates, ODS with Svobodné and Mayors for South Moravia. It has 37 seats among 65 representatives.
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A coalition agreement in the South Moravian Region has been signed. The governor will be the People’s Party Grolich
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In the fight against the spread of coronavirus , the region had two hundred primary and secondary school teachers tested in Kyjov and Strážnice in the Hodonín region. Antigenic testing was voluntary, two people came out of it positively, said Regional Councilor for Health Jiří Kasala (ODS). According to him, they went to quarantine and underwent classic PCR tests.
Olomoucký
In the Olomouc Region, after the elections, Josef Suchánek, the leader of the Pirates and STAN and the director of the Administration of Dormitories and Canteens of Palacký University, became the new governor. The region is now led by a coalition of Pirates and STAN, the Allies-Coalition for the Olomouc Region and the ODS. He has 32 votes in the 55-member council.
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The Moravian-Silesian Region allows navigability of part of the Odra. Olomouc does not want a canal of three seas at all
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The Olomouc Regional Council, for example, has already expressed its disagreement with the construction of the Danube-Odra-Elbe canal, which should also run through the region. The Czech government adopted a resolution on the start of preparations for this large-scale construction on 5 October.
“Today, the canal has no utility and economic justification. In addition, according to experts, it is a major threat to the environment. That is why I think it was the right decision not to further support its construction, “commented the decision of the regional councilors of Olomouc Governor Josef Suchánek (Pirates and STAN).
Moravian-Silesian
Ivo Vondrák from the winning YES movement, who led the office in the last election period, became the governor of the Moravian-Silesian Region again. The coalition ANO, ODS running together with TOP 09, KDU-ČSL and ČSSD has a majority of 46 votes in the 65-member council.
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The tax package will force the regions to make cuts. But the governors believe that they will still arrange compensation
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In the budget for next year, the management of the Moravian-Silesian Region expects a drop in revenues. The planned amount of 8.570 billion crowns is lower than the approved budget this year by 1.626 billion crowns, while the region assumes that only from shared taxes will lose more than a billion crowns in the reconstruction of the runway Leoš Janáček Ostrava, the completion of the new TATRA Museum in Kopřivnice in the Novojičín region or to other building modifications in the Silesian Hospital in Opava.
Zlínský
Jiří Čunek, the prominent leader of the KDU-ČSL in the Zlín Region, was replaced in the governor’s chair by the mayor of Rožnov pod Radhoštěm, Radim Holiš (ANO). The Zlín Region now leads a coalition of YES, Pirates, ODS and CSSD. He has 24 votes in the forty-five-member council.
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The new management of the region will decide on the contract for the hospital project in Zlín
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The new management of the Zlín Region wants to cancel the tender for the designer of the new regional hospital in Zlín-Malenovice. The new hospital was promoted by the former governor Čunek, the deputies approved the building in the last election period, the region also bought land for it and prepared a contract with the winner of the public contract for the designer, which Čunek did not sign. Representatives of the new coalition criticized the project even before the elections.
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