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The representatives of the STAN motion didn’t disguise their disappointment on the press convention after the presentation of the outcomes of the elections to the European Parliament. They received solely two of the three anticipated seats.
The chief of their candidate, Danuše Nerudová, can even sit within the European Parliament. In an interview she gave to journalists shortly after the outcomes had been introduced, she talks concerning the marketing campaign, the place the potential of the Starosts was misplaced in these elections, and the bullying she confronted from Filip Turk’s followers.
“For 3 quarters of a 12 months on social networks, I confronted unimaginable hate, an onslaught of his fanatical followers, who had been actually impolite, jerks, threatening,” she mentioned.
Does it harm loads to finish up behind the Oath with the Motorists and the communists?
Effectively, I am sorry, after all, by way of worth. It’s completely horrifying to me that 35 years after the Velvet Revolution, communists are fourth and right-wing extremists are in entrance of them. We have to begin doing one thing about this factor, calling a spade a spade. We have now a 12 months and a half till the parliamentary elections to work on this stuff right here.
The motorists, who spoke out in opposition to the restrictions on inner combustion engines and the Inexperienced Deal, completed third…
The issue of banning inner combustion engines was created by those that offered the Inexperienced Deal within the Czech Republic in such a restricted type that the one factor that’s necessary is the banning of inner combustion engines. It isn’t, everyone knows that, and I believe it is come out a thousand instances in discussions that that is one of many issues, however there’s an entire host of different issues which might be good for the standard of life.
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Do not you now have the sensation on reflection that you can have received him some percentages together with your marketing campaign in opposition to Filip Turk? In the event you had let his assaults go, it won’t have turned out like this?
Quite the opposite. I’ll inform you one thing private about it. For 3 quarters of a 12 months on social networks, I confronted unimaginable hate, an onslaught of his fanatical followers, who had been actually impolite, jerks, and threatened. And we noticed within the numbers what it seems like. Social media is type of an image and I really remorse that we did it so late. We must always have found a lot earlier who he actually is and what his previous is.
He has been rumored to be keen on neo-Nazi symbols in current weeks, however that does not appear to have swayed his preferences. Do you assume in the event you began speaking about it earlier it will have helped?
Anyway, we had been the one ones who had the center to do that right here and make clear the issue. Nobody else joined us, everybody buried their heads within the sand. And that is really an entire analogy with the SPD. When the SPD was shaped, everybody caught their heads within the sand and all of a sudden it was a parliamentary social gathering.
You already mentioned on the press convention that the Spolu coalition shielded you a bit by operating a “both us or YES” fashion marketing campaign. Do you assume there was a mistake someplace in your aspect?
We will definitely talk about it now within the following days. We definitely cannot analyze it so rapidly after the result’s introduced. In fact, a very powerful factor was that the battle was conceived as a battle between the Collectively coalition and the YES motion.
The results of you and the Pirates fell wanting expectations. Do you assume there are sufficient voters within the Czech Republic who hearken to the liberal subjects you raised?
This result’s comparable in different European international locations, however we merely can not retreat from the values we’ve got. We’re the one purely pro-European social gathering and we’ll stay a purely pro-European social gathering, as a result of for us that is the fundamental worth.
We watched the tally of the outcomes on-line:
While you see the printed exit polls, do you concern that the work within the European Parliament might be harder with this composition?
It exhibits that ultimately the modifications in composition is not going to be as drastic as we thought. However after all there might be some change of positions and we’ll do our greatest to advertise the liberal values that we’ve got.
You had a fairly excessive potential earlier than the election. The place did the individuals who thought-about you go? Why could not you persuade them?
The STAN motion has a long-term very low electoral core, the bottom of all authorities events, and naturally that potential was additionally for Spolu, so the battle was framed as being the one one to defeat ANO. That is the untapped potential.
How will your outcome converse to the negotiations concerning the European Commissioner?
It is midnight and I say once more: We have to talk about every part. Now I’ve been elected to the European Parliament, tomorrow the presidency meets. So I imagine, as Vít Rakušan mentioned, that this stuff might be resolved within the following week. I do not wish to speculate at this level.