The ANO motion received the European elections within the Czech Republic, successful seven mandates. The chief of the candidates and elected MEP Klára Dostálova says that a few of the slogans used within the marketing campaign weren’t meant significantly and had been solely exaggerations. However he needs to try for, for instance, the abolition of the ban on inner combustion engines or a change within the migration pact. In accordance with her, asylum seekers ought to wait outdoors the union, much like the best way Britain agreed with Rwanda.
They are saying you might be flying to Brussels on Monday. When did you purchase the ticket?
I purchased it just a few days earlier than. It was a little bit of a danger.
Within the marketing campaign, you used a photograph and a video of migrants touring on a ship. On the similar time, it appeared within the media that you simply modified your thoughts on the final minute. Why did you resolve to make use of the picture anyway?
It wasn’t fairly like that. We thought we’d run a optimistic marketing campaign, so we lastly determined to take down the billboards and all of the posters with the migrants on the boat. The place the picture appeared, there have been already pre-recorded movies. Nevertheless it was in black and white, type of within the background to set the temper. However the lyrics that had been in that video had been very constant. I believe we saved the marketing campaign in a extra optimistic spirit, not a scary one.
Lastly, you used anti-EU slogans on the posters. One learn, for instance, “beetles as an alternative of meat”. How ought to the voters interpret it?
That was simply an exaggeration. After all, everybody understands that, primarily based on how we expressed ourselves within the debates. As a result of one of many European laws that has not been authorised is to limit cattle breeding as a result of cows produce emissions. After all, this can by no means result in Europeans stopping consuming meat. However to the truth that we’d begin importing meat from third international locations.
However you might be speaking concerning the slogan “ban our cows”, which is on the identical poster. I requested regarding bugs, which is a debunked hoax that the European Union goes so as to add bugs to meals.
I say that was pure exaggeration. After all, if you cannot eat meat and wish some protein that does not come from artificial crops, you are left with bugs. Nevertheless it’s actually simply an exaggeration.
Slogans within the election video of the YES motion. | Photograph: Aktuálně.cz
Within the election program, you write: “Present political elites inform individuals whom they need to and mustn’t vote for, educate, with whom they might and will not hang around, what they might and will not learn.” What particularly do you suppose shouldn’t be learn?
Given how the marketing campaign à la disinformation and regulation of social networks is being run, it might partly result in this stuff. However once more, it’s an allusion to the over-regulation of the European Union.
So it is also an exaggeration identical to bugs?
Sure following all. If you wish to entice voters, you need to promote it to them in a language they perceive. For instance, once I speak regarding the truth that we’ll shine a light-weight on disinformation, who can have the mandate to say what’s true and what’s not, it’s extra regarding educating individuals on the Web. In order that they know the place they will confirm info. However not that we are going to purposefully suppress sure info and we can have an equipment that can say what’s sure and what’s not.
And might’t the voters understand these exaggerations as scaremongering?
I believe positively not. No scare comes from it.
We need to beat a wedge with a wedge
ANO received seven mandates within the European Parliament. What do you say to the end result?
After all we’re excited. We advocated six mandates and stated that something above that was an amazing success. Now we have put collectively a really skilled {and professional} staff, so I consider that from the very first minute within the European Parliament we’ll pursue our targets and priorities that we promised to the voters.
On the press convention following the announcement of the outcomes, you stated that you simply agree with different MEPs on the Inexperienced Deal and the migration pact. What regarding lifting the ban on inner combustion engines following 2035?
If I think regarding which events have succeeded inside the European Parliament, I believe we have now a majority who agree that they need to repeal the ban on combustion engines and revise the Inexperienced Deal.
Nobody is saying that we need to abolish it utterly. For instance, with regards to nature safety, all of us agree there. The largest issues are with industrial laws. And I consider that we are going to additionally cooperate throughout events as Czech MEPs.
Relating to the migration pact, you stated earlier that you simply need to beat a wedge with a wedge, to place it merely, change it. What particular modifications are concerned?
It’s regarding beating a wedge with a wedge, i.e. getting ready new laws that can precede the already authorised one. The authorised migration pact has a delayed impact of two years. And I worry what might are available these two years. As a result of it’s potential that smugglers will reap the benefits of it.
That is why I say it will likely be a precedence. I’m very sorry that whether it is now potential to get 15 to 19 states that say that the migration pact is incorrect, then why was it not potential to get a blocking minority and we didn’t should take care of it. We should always have centered on the initiative. Specifically, an important factor is that the asylum process takes place in third international locations.
Which third nation would it not be?
That is following all a giant debate, it needs to be extra states. It can’t be blackmailed by one, resembling the issues with Turkey, the place then that they had unrealistic calls for on the European Union.
However following all the initiative might be continued, as is the instance of Britain with Rwanda, Italy is negotiating with Albania. You will need to deal particularly with the states of North Africa, which might present these camps the place the asylum process would happen.
Do you suppose it’s lifelike for the Czech Republic to ship migrants to Rwanda?
So we do not have a contract with Rwanda but. I do not know which nation we can have a contract with.
However is it lifelike?
After all, we’ll need to stop migrants from reaching the Czech Republic in any respect. Which means that if somebody applies for asylum, they are going to go straight to a 3rd nation, the place the asylum process might be carried out. The entire foundation of the brand new laws is to make sure that the refugee doesn’t set foot on the soil of the European Union in any respect.
Are you going to by some means observe up on the work of outgoing ANO MEP Dita Charanzová, who didn’t run for workplace this yr?
Positive. I’d be pleased if Dita and I met within the European Parliament, as a result of I’d be taken with working, for instance, within the Inside Market and Shopper Safety Committee, the place she beforehand labored. I consider he can move on priceless expertise to me.
You welcomed the assertion of President Petr Pavle, who said in a current interview {that a} compromise might emerge within the peace talks in Ukraine. Are you able to personally think regarding that Ukraine would quit a part of its territory throughout these negotiations?
We had been simply saying that it was a very protracted battle. It is already a bit frozen on the entrance. And it’s excessive time to start out negotiating a ceasefire, a ceasefire. Solely then can peace talks start. I welcomed the truth that even President Petr Pavel admitted this within the interview, who even went additional when he talked concerning the territory. Now we have by no means talked concerning the territory but. I’m satisfied that President Zelenskyy should talk regarding this with the world leaders of the West.
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