After the presidential office published the minutes of the meeting on pension reform, from which it is clear that the result of the debate is the agreement presented by the president on the unsustainability of the current form of the pension system, ANO MP Margita Balaštíková came up with the claim that the reason for the later different interpretation of the conclusions of the discussion was allegedly bad acoustics .
According to the deputy, the actors of the negotiations for the ANO movement, vice-presidents Karel Havlíček and Alena Schillerová, should have complained that they “heard very poorly; that there was a very poor sound transmission”.
On Wednesday, Balaštíková said in Událoste comments on Czech television that Schillerová “didn’t even hear what was actually being presented”. Only later was she to be “consulted (probably meant some other word note ed.) with what was discussed there”. When this happened and Schillerová and Havlíček found out what the outcome of the meeting was, they “immediately denied it”, which, however, does not correspond at all to the course of the press conference at the Castle. They were both present there and did not object in any way to the interpretation of the results. They only stated that YES needed to see additional materials for this.
According to the minutes taken by Vladimír Bezděk, adviser to the president, economist and member of the Government’s National Economic Council, representatives of the ANO movement at the meeting not only “did not question the necessity of raising the retirement age”, but apparently actively participated in the discussion and stated that they “disagree with a specific the proposed way of its implementation”, but they prefer a different principle.
Photo: Ondřej Deml, CTK
Meeting of President Petr Pavel with representatives of the coalition and opposition to the pension reform, March 28, 2024. In the picture, Marian Jurečka, Petr Pavel, Karel Havlíček and Alena Schillerová
Havlíček: it was a shed
Havlíček, who was particularly touched by the fact that the presidential office published the minutes because the media were interested in them based on the Freedom of Information Act, came on Wednesday with his own conspiratorial interpretation of the meeting at the Castle.
“I have not experienced in the last 30 years that someone has issued a record as official when the other party does not agree to it. In other words, it gives me the impression that it was a shack,” the shadow prime minister declared and openly hinted that the presidential office should have set a trap for the ANO movement.
YES, an unfortunate meeting with the president hurts a lot. It can’t be like that, Havlíček is angry at the Castle
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