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Recently the Czech people headed to the polls to select a new parliament and a new leader. Yesterday and handover of power finally happened with a coalition of parties who dislike current PM Babis joining forces to kick him out of office. So in this video, we unpack what happened, why Babis was kicked out, and what this new disparate coalition could mean for the Czech Republic.
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"Far right SPD" is something that to me, as a German, just sounds odd. But i guess identical acronyms can mean vastly different ideologies in countries that don't speak the same language.
Hey just think of how it sounds to us in the USA. most "Far right" political groups in europe barely qualify as right wing to us. And even that is mostly because they just want some sort of limits on immigration.
Yes, its funny from the Czech side too. German SPD is Social Democrats, while Czech SPD is "Svoboda a Přímá Demokracie"/Freedom and Direct Democracy Party. However, especially in English, its can sometimes be a bit confusing. Very different ideologies from one another too. The Czech anti-immigration SPD is also, funnily enough, led by a half-Japanese politician named Tomio Okamura. :D
@@VME-Brad They'd be right at home on the rightmost end of the GOP. They only seem not far-right because the US is a far-right shithole.
In Czech Republic politic party similar to german SPD is KDU-ČSL. Czech SPD is conservative nationalist and populist party, with wery controversional opinions (for example denying holocaust). It uses desinformations as propagation. Definetly something else :D
EDIT: I've got the names wrong. KDU-ČSL is a czech version of CDU not SPD. Something truthly smilar to SPD in Czech Republic doesn't really exist (maybe ČSSD, probably not).
@@batrachian149 US is too far left day by day.
I know nothing about this party in particular, I just know that most parties in europe that get the "far right" label are mostly "We should do something about immigration, We spend too much money, and Maybe we should decentralize things a bit" All reasonable positions that just qualify as center right.
To all my ignorance about economics and (specially) Czech politics... It was amazing to watch this video.
I would love to learn more about Czechia, including politics.
Thank you very much!
Salute from São Paulo, Brazil.
im so glad to hear that about somebody not from Czechia!^^ Its damn crazy times here these days... srsly no kidding
Their Bolsonaro was replaced by a coalition of marginally or vastly better parties thankfully
@@danielszekeres8003 !!!!!
Well, I am not sure... But it seems to me that, because of this political sistem these czechs had to dialogue (and make a political alliance) on a way that Bolsonaro - nor his three politicians sons - would never learn in his entire life.
Bolsonaro is not capable (has no skill) of dialogue.
Bolsonaro only knows to threat! And shout against journalists (specially if they are woman).
@@joskajiri It is not so often, but...
Many times it is much easier to watch or listen to Austrian politics than things about Czechia.
Sometimes it is even easier to watch here about the king in Liechtenstein than about the Czechs and their life.
For me it is very sad and not fair.
The Czechs finally switched their votes to "Ne"
Ne, nebude líp
Ah, yess... The New Europeans... Have been making that joke for five years now :D
Let's see for how long though.
@@lukas.prochazka Nebude, ale s Babisconim by taky nebylo. Už to všechno prožral. Líp bude, až se po něm uklidí.
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For the non-Czech speakers reading this: Just a rant and venting how Babiš put our future into the dumpster.
@@Alche_mist I believe that with this government and General Pavel as president, order and peace will once again be in our country.
The coalition should agree on a limited number of urgent political measures and keep their differences and fights behind very closed doors. If they manage to do that, they manage the pandemic and they approve the next budget, they could then go for new elections.
If they fight openly, Babis will be back.
Is that ALL they have to do? Well should be clear sailing then.
@@michaelthomas5433 these are politicians whos favorite things are
1 supporting their party
2 scandals
3 arguing at anyone with a slightly different view.
Your right it should be simple but....
@@legiohysterius4624 ChocoAfro is no longer there, nor is Kalousek
This is a coalition that won't last two years. We've seen those opportunistic coalitions in Poland before and none of them made it full term. Once they run out of things they can agree on, the government will simply collapse. They should use this time to push through the most urgent matters, and gather enough support before the next, early elections. Generally speaking, those who achieve at least some of what they promised, and call for early elections first will be the winners.
@@B3RyL I don't think that's the case here now. First, Czechs generally hate anybody who calls for early election and sink them disregarding the other circumstances :D Second, there are so many non-ideological issues that need fixing right now, that the government shouldn't run out of them in 4 years. Third, all the parties are very much aware of the Babiš's threat if they do not act like saints and cooperate without bickering. Overall, I'm optimistic about their prospects, if they can get the government past the president.
Very well made video. I can confirm that everything is correct factually, especially the fears about the new coalition's cohesion. However, they do agree on some key parts, like funding infrastructure and reforming the judicial system to disentangle it from the Babiš's empire. My biggest fear is their budgetary plans, which I don't find very realistic. They are adamant on not raising taxes and cutting bureaucratic expenses to save the sinking public finances. But that is always much easier said than done, and I expect them to change their position on taxes. The populists before put them too low in my opinion, and the country famously has trouble meeting even its regular expenses like govt employee salaries or pensions.
Though to be honest, unless there is broad public support, raising taxes is fundamentally political suicide mostly in capitalist countries especially when businesses benefit from very low taxes. Again, you'd need broad public support to get them to specifically raise taxes in order for them to at the very least reconsider. Emphasize how low current taxes are, and you have a strong argument. You just need strong publicity and support to make raising taxes in this case look more like a political success rather than political suicide.
@@kioshi-4588 it will be political suicide, Babis owns the largest media conglomerate and czechs havent felt this wealth in a long while. sadly i can see a harder populist swing in the next election if Babis runs again and smaller parties wont have the power to stop him from turning Czech authoritarian.
@@michaelbirkett4932 Assuming Babis wouldn't run for president which is IMO highly likely.
@@kioshi-4588 Depends on the taxes, raising income tax is, raising wealth tax less so (depends on your political clout and propaganda)
@@vladsikorsky7931 at least he will have less power as president.
I love Babis way of "winning" back votes:
1. Failure to solve problems, make them tougher
2. Step down
3. Make sure the former opposition cannot solve the problem
4. Blame everything on former opposition
5. Win the next election, fail to solve problems, make the problems tougher...
My tired brain: Czech Election: Finally Kicking Babies
Probably something Babiš would do, let`s be real.
@@samueltrusik3251 If it payed well, most certanly.
Ahh, the Slovak billionaire is no longer PM.
vell technically we have 2 PMs at the moment :D
Ah, this gives me so much 2006 Italy vibes, makes me feel younger!
Here the billionare with all the possible media advantage and all the possible conflict of interest was Mr B himself.
He was narrowly defeated by a huge coalition "L'Unione" that did not agree on anything.
B took it so bad and personal.
He ended up destroing the government in less than 2 years, forcing another election, and then getting his biggest electoral victory ever in 2008, just before the Big Financial Crisis, when he mismanaged the ship so spectacularly we almost defaulted.
Good times.
Looking forward for the future of the Czech republic then. Thanks for a good perspective. :D
Can't whait for them to get their Renzi and Meloni in 8 years
I remember the other EU members putting so much pressure on him he was ultimately forced to resign. You know it was a dire situation when foreign intervention actually helps a country
@@filippomeuti9617 I wouldn’t wish that on anyone lmao
update, he will be propably somehow elected as a President, despite everyone is swearing on his name..
Genuinely interested to see how this 5 party coalition will work
We will watch your career with great interest
Bulgaria is currently trying to agree on a 6 party coalition(one of the parties is actually a coalition of 3 different ones, thus they are 6 rather than 4) in the midst of record inflation, lowest vaccination rate in the EU(only 22%) and still having to battle the mafia that the previous government(still very influential) has left. So it looks like a interesting time for European politics.
I don't think they are as divided as they seem. Pirates were the biggest potential troublemakers, but now they don't have the power nor incentives to sabotage the efforts. They have two ministers, which is insanely high number since they have only 4 MPs so they should be content with that. And if they aren't, they can leave the coalition and it would still have house majority so they have no blackmail option like the communists did in the last government.
@@vaclavcervinka65 Pirates should not have been two ministries. Fiala is just doing that out of charity...
@@michaelbirkett4932 I don't think it's out of charity. Pirates and Mayors had a coalition agreement concerning splitting the ministerial seats and the Mayors don't want to break it so they exerted pressure on SPOLU to give Pirates two ministers. But I agree with you that two ministers for 4 MPs is too much. One would be more than enough.
Thank you very much for creating an on-point video about our election. We usually get dismissed as unimportant, so thanks for covering it again. Sending support to TLDR EU from the Czech Republic.
You are not unimportant at all. Greetings from Warsaw:)
Wow I never was interested in Czech politics but after watching I want to Czech out more videos on it
This is the effect the TH-cam rabbit hole can have.
Be careful kids
I mean, it's definitely fun to watch... unless it's your everyday reality.
@@bnfgh123 Exactly. :D
If America ever gets a "Pirate Party" I'm strapping my eyepatch, removing one of my legs and buying a parrot. Of course i'd vote for that!
America already has a Pirate Party. It is a global movement
@@NLDKboris The problem is third parties get little to no representation, thanks to first-past-the-post.
With the american voting system, that will not work
I am pretty sure you have Pirate Party in US, you just don't know about them. 😀
Would’ve been fun had the Pirates won.
“You’re without a doubt the worst PM we’ve ever elected.”
“Aye, but you’ve elected us.”
At least they won the mayoral elections in Prague a few years ago, so one can dream...
That pirate party leader guy looks cool
@@alexseguin5245 He looks like hed assault a bunch of grannies for tjeir pennies.
@@PadecMaybeReal ARRGH a pirate that one lol
@@vanbaguette7368 dream bringing antifa to power, what could gone wrong?
“Redistributing peoples summer homes to migrants” is the kind of scaremongering you’d expect from a cartoon supervillain.
Lex Luther is more subtle than that.
The funny thing is ppl actually believe that shit.
Oh and lets not forget the "genocide of elderly" and "mandatory gay marriages"
in Italy
if migrant occupies your apartment,
you are not allowed to break in your own apartment
until court gives you permission
in Soviet Russia were very popular propaganda films where elderly disabled Jews were literally thrown out of their homes on the street (also in Crimea as of now they could take take away from you whatever they like)
I'm sure China and Venezuela also have no problem with expropriation
Socialism is universal things.
And you don't need to listen to what conservatives say,
I'm pretty sure Czechs socialist promised to take care of the most vulnerable (migrants) at others people expenses
@@mastergoblin7205 nobody was willing to die on that hill as it would be political suicide - almost nobody here is for that sort of thing, so that wasnt the case - most of this is just the populists fighting dirty by making fake news
@@mastergoblin7205 i'm calling bullshit on that migrants occupying your apartment nonsense, if there is any such law it will apply to non migrants too and is intended to protect either squatters or tenants.
Nothing new really.
Sadly a lot of Brits apparently fell for the - "Labour will make Britain a Venezuela" in the last election..
5:22 *confused Germany noises*
They say Marvel Endgame was the most ambitious crossover yet, well then, wait till they see the new Czechs coalition.
2:23 looks more like a fusion of The Pirate Bay and Microsoft.
crackship
A populist, rich guy who was voted out because he handled the pandemic poorly, I feel like I have heard this before...
Well still Trump definitely wasn't supported by communists...
@@bowwak5366 I have a hard time seeing communists supporting any billionare.
@@PalkkiTT That's what I was thinking, how come communists support him??
@@PalkkiTT well Babis is an exception then, his party was supported by communists.
@@PalkkiTT But what if the billionaire is an ex-member of the communist secret police?
Am I the only one who read the thumbnail as "Finally kicking out babies"?
I blinked for a straight ten seconds.
Nope!
Babiš (ano) lost because no other party would join him, so he didn’t have enough seats. The president would have chosen him over any other party if he had a coalition. Babiš is still very popular with the public (it’s the way he talks) and will now probably run for the Presidency with support from the current president
Thats what happens with populist parties in europe, in Finland the social democrats made a big coalition with all the other parties instead of working with our populist party, somehow the greens got both interior and foreign affairs minister.
He is very popular with a certain part of the public. On the other hand, he is absolutely hated by everyone else. There is no middle ground for him, unlike with other politicians.
Yes yes, ofc consipiracy, stolen elections etc... Does Babiš pay you well?
@@chelsis857 not to mention pandora papers definitely hurt him.
His actions for the last two years made him loose support both in public and in political space though. Working with and for Babis is not only, well, "demanding", due to his personality issues, but also most defiant political suicide. Babis himself may stay on top floating, his minions though are done, and no one would be willing to share CSSD fate.
Short, unbiased, and interesting to hear about. I love this channel!
I was so looking forward for this video. I was participating in this!
Greetings from Czechia!
You guys of TLDR are getting better and better! Kudos!
They didn't do a minimum they could do: learn how to pronounce non-English names. They didn't do it.
@@kilians9653 Grow up. Who cares.
@@kilians9653 Alright, pronounce Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal correctly.
@@kilians9653 There's over 6500 lannguages spoken in the world today. Can't learn name pronounciation in all of them
@@kilians9653 I agree, but then this would cause some misunderstanding, especially among English speaking people. I am fluent in four languages, however I frequently adapt names, especially Italian or Portuguese ones to what people manage to understand. French and German ones are usually pronounced correctly in English, though with an accent. Though Meeoonik instead of München is, aaargh "unlistenable".
I love you for referring to Czech republic as a "central european" country, not "eastern european".
I mean it is literally in the center
@@ninlog for most Western European countries, everything east of Germany is eastern european 😂
@@narojdebeste even part of germany used to be in the east.
Germany itself is in Central-Europe.
It's Babish, not Babis.
I will never understand how English native speakers never bother to put the name into Google Translate to see how it is pronounced 🙄
Isn't it more like Babich ? like Babitsh ??
@@martinstent5339 That would be the case if his name were "Babič" with a "č". "Š" is pronounced like "sh", though, therefore it's "Babish".
@@ivansoldaccount9823 Thanks! It looks like the German news readers, BBC and CNN etc. sometimes get it wrong too! Nice to hear from someone who actually knows!
@@martinstent5339 I'm definitely calling him Ba-bitch from now on, though.
Agreed! And pronouncing "ano" as "anu"? Kinda sad. - An American in Prague.
This Channel is underrated, you make content of much higher quality than most TV channels including the BBC and CNN!
BBC and CNN aren't exactly high bars
@@nicci_valentine :DD than what is?
@@jorgenstudios3791 Man... hard to say. All news is so biased and loaded. That said, I've found CNN and BBC to be especially bad (CNN more so)
Fox and Sky are also awful. Al Jazeera at least gives world news that is actually *world* news, so they have that going for them.
I thought the thumbnail said "finally kicking out babys" I had to double take xD.
The babies in the US Supreme Court should be worried
@@rallysmith6403 all over the us, especially on city councils, state legislatures, and our Congress.
Fun fact: every 60 seconds in Czech republic passes in 1 minute
Together we can end this
true
@@gavinsmith9871 The passage of time or the Czech Republic?
@@S3Cs4uN8 Yes.
Czechia is in Africa?
Dont worry, if anything goes wrong, its defenestration time
I see, you're a man of tradition then...
Two problems with this video: 1) President Zeman has not been specific about who he has a problem with nor what the problem is. It is presumed that it is Pirates candidate Lipavsky, but no one confirmed that officially. 2) The new coalition has quite a big overlap in their programs. Only Pirates are somehow different but they are not even necessary for the coalition to have a majority.
Might want to check latest "Otázky Václava Moravce.". Can't remember the name right now, but the identity of the person was revealed there.
@@looseycanon no it wasn't
As someone born in Saxony I wish to know more about Czech republic and all things there. I am very grateful for this video and I wish to know as much as possible about a country that was once the infrastructure and industry core of Austrian Empire, then 8th world economy as Czechoslovakia, under communist regimes it was pumping so much money to all the communist countries and their allies like Cuba! Now it's even more mysterious place and I know so very little - and I am now in Prague, but can't read newspapers or watch news. I am asking people and getting such fantastic bits and pieces of informations! I don't know what's a truth and what is just rumour. I would like to know how is it really with Okamura party, that true hardcore Stalinist party, president and those two expresidents of Czechs, various Mafias influence over the country, Velvet revolution, society and public opinions or its relationshiop with Poland, Slovak and Hungarian republic. Since my trip to Prague I actually know that I don't know anything at all. I wish you all Dobry Den!
"Ouch, you must suck" 1:59
I love this channel humor
Great video! :)
By the way, Babiš is pronounced babish. And "ANO" is not only "yes" in Czech, it also stands for "action of dissatisfied citizens".
Anyways, I really love your news, keeping us informed about Europe and the world! ❤️
It's nice that he is a versatile personality. Half-time Czech politician, half-time a TH-camr with a cooking show.
Wow! Im Czech, and I have to say, this is very accurate. Job well done.
What is with that trend to have old-wreck type of guy as a president? They are the least concerned about environment and actuall long term progress. Why would anyone vote for them?
Just as many can go the opposite way you know, old men not long for the world often look to leave some sort of lasting "legacy" behind.
He's serving his second (and last by the constitution) 5-year term. Also, he did a lot in politics since the fall of the communism and is great at one thing - pissing off people. There are a lot of people here who feel (often times rightfully so) that they lost in the transformation and pissing the winners off is a good aim for them. Those are the people who he successfully targeted.
Because he was very openly anti-immigration and vulgar and people had known him for decades. That's literally it. There were billboards like "I'll protect you from the migrants" all over the country and his opponent from academic background was labelled as an out-of-touch puppet representing the "Prague café" (an anti-intelligence slur invented by Zeman).
It's actually Babiš, with the letter Š being spelled like the diatric sh in sheep, but without the eep.
Like škoda?
@@deepspacedruid7673 yup
I thought š was retroflex in Czech? Or is that basically every other western and eastern Slavic tongue?
@@everettduncan7543 "Š" should be " voiceless postalveolar fricative" and it has no alternative pronunciation, at least not in Czech.
ODS: we did it my friends, we are in goverment!
Pirates: great!! ... what Now? How we make this work?
ODS: ... don't know, I did not think we get this far ...
Please do more research on pronunciation, if people from east can do that in english, You can do that for couple of words in slavic languages.
It was disappointing that even simple names like ANO and Zeman were prounounced incorrectly.
This is not fair. Everyone learns English, so most people speak two languages: their own and English. This doesn't mean that English people should learn ALL other languages. I would like to see you try Dutch names/words, for example. Sure, it would be nice if the pronunciation was 100% correct, but it is not essential for the video.
No.
@@janickpauwels3792 Not asking for 100%, just saying the correct, english-equivalent phoneme. For example for š, saying english "sh". This info is easy to look up.
@@janickpauwels3792 To be fair, if you are going to discuss a topic in a video like this, it's not unreasonable to expect someone to at least try to research the pronunciation.
It's not like the examples here would be difficult for a native English speaker to pronounce either... the czech š sound is the same as the English sh sound, and the o in Ano is pronounced like a flat o, not as a 'u'.
That's unfortunate. The Pirate movement gaining ground would have been absolutely huge.
No, not really. The Pirates have have just proven that they’re too unstable and immature for real politics. If you look up some of the things that happened post-elections here, you’ll see what I mean
4:22
Sounds like the perfect German politician.
Yes, german politicians come in two forms: Tyrants and Boring.
didn't know the weekend was running politics in czechnia
So the pirates had a solid policy platform and the support of local representatives/mayors. But then they got struck down by diffamation/smear campaign by political opponents?
Man, sometimes I hate politics
there is other reason as well. They had 2/3 of candidates on the vote ballot because in preferencies they were mutch biger party than Starostové a nezavislý. But here you can either cast the balot only or you can circle you desireble candidates on balot. (its calld preferencial votes) And basicly local mayors and other regionaly known personalities from that movement outjumpt them. ( you have 4 pref. voltes and candidates who got more than 5% pref. from all votest for the cand. list can outjump candidates above.) Pirates voters usualy vote for whole list without pref., starostove a nez. voters usualy used perf. votes for their candidates. So they gaind so mutch form the system. (Last election, they nearly didnt made it to the parlament with 5,1% and now they are 3rd biggest party in parlament.
7:13
This could've been worded better. It's not clear whether the President is seeking to get rid of the Pirate nominee because the Pirate nominee is anti-China and anti-Russia (I assume this is the case from context), or because the President is anti-China and anti-Russia (and the Pirate nominee, implicitly, not that).
The minister managed to block Chinese and Russian companies from signing up for expanding one of our nuclear power plants - The president is salty about it since he would like the country to be part of Russia :D
Pirates are for human rights, so they don't like Russia and China. But President Zeman is pragmatic so he wants to keep good relations with Russia and China
@@vere9652 We all want to keep good relation ships with Russia and China, but with today Putin's leadership, it really hard to keep good relation ships when Russian government is doing crimes here.
Thank you! I wasn't sure which way TDLR meant this.
Ano, not anu ;)
Great video on my country's election, thank you!
Did a double take as I misread the title card as "Czechs finally kicking out babies."
Can someone knowledgeable about Czech politics explain what in the world the Communists and social democrats doing supporting the Babis government?
Well they did loose the election, because of that....
I think its because few others would work with him, to stop him working with the far-right and because he was willing to meet them halfway on things they supported. Babis is seen is relatively economically left-wing compared to say the new government, even if he is a bit conservative.
The Social Democrats did it to prevent the Babiš coalition and the extremist SPD and the Communists, because Babiš promised them things that he did not fulfill
Slovak here, but it's pretty similar to Czech politics around here. In our countries, communists and social democrats are more like populist conservative parties than leftist pro-worker parties of the West. They mostly use communist nostalgia among the population and poorly thought out social policy to attract voters to stay in power for as long as possible, meaning they are very often pretty corrupt.
They claim that it is their duty to stop Babis from governing with the conservative center-right parties. But it is clear that their representatives are power-hungry hypocrites and wanted the seats in the government and the parliament for themselves. The social democrats governed with Babis from 2013 (they had the PM at the time) to 2017. The communists have lost most of their older voters to Babis (so it was a mistake for them).
Greetings to our Slavic brothers from Poland
What about your Slavic bros in Scotland and England? They’re Slavs now. I’ve decided x
@@mr.afrikaans1747 to our brothers in Scotland I say:
Happy st Andrew's Day
The new parties might not be the most stable, but if they all truly wish for the best Czech future, I believe they will do at least somewhat well.
All of the parties in the current coalition are rather well established with the two newest (TOP 09 and Pirates) being founded in 2009 and all having some experience on all levels of the political ladder with the exception of Pirates not having been in the governmental coalition yet (but were a decent opposition last term).
A few things to remember.
No country should be run by a government of just one party. Such systems are for countries like North Korea and China and sadly also for some English speaking countries.
No country should have just one or two parties.
Pretty much all English speaking countries have the 2 party ram now.
@@everettduncan7543 , yes, it's a bad system,and there where more of them in Europe too long ago, but they disappeared luckily.
It produces a all or nothing world and a we and the enemy world where you can lie without limits if it's about the enemy.
Shit system, and it shows.
the pirates and mayors coalition would have been so fascinating and quite possibly awesome in govt, though i definitely understand not wanting to vote for them with the fear of too far-left
Which is interesting, considering that they present a libertarian far left. Something that would have been unprecedented
I don't get why people would think the pirates are far left, they look kinda centrist/libertarian to me. Unless the Czech pirate party is very different from those in other countries?
@@loxodoncyclotis1823 oh maybe they are i wouldnt know
what is there too understand? Pirates aren't too far-left. Media and political opponents simply made a smear campaign against them with loads of fear mongering. And being "antifa" simply means being antifascist. there's nothing wrong with that
You know, they really cover a blind spot on the social / political spectrum, which is not covered well by existing parties - elwctorate of traditional social parties based on unions is 50+ village bumpkins, and conservative right parties of Margaret Thather style surelly dont cover young, liberal city folk, with quite leftist opinions, who see a big corporate and laissez fair more as a threat than opportunity , and, sincerely, quite failing system. It is the same people who would vote for Bernie, for example.
Your favourite contry, including the EU 😍😍
love the video! my history teacher went to the same school as Petr Fiala, shes always praised him and i kinda like him too
I'm shocked that Pirates are getting anything with only 4 seats
Yes, because they have 10 percent support. Mayors and Independets have 33 seats only because most of pirate voters didnt bother to choose their prefered candidate.
They are much stronger party in reality than on paper. I dont know how it works elsewhere but here you can pick specific candidates to get your votes when you go to the ballot.
Pirates and Mayors had a single ballot list so by default you split it 50/50 when you put it in. However if you pick candidates from one side the vote goes to them. Most Mayor voters circled Mayors only while Pirate voters generally didnt mind Mayors so they just didnt circle (my case for example) this leads to the outcome being 75% for Mayors and 25% for Pirates provided there is even split on voters (which is likely). As such they cant really treat pirates as unimportant.
The other thing is that Mayors and Pirates went in with the decision to split evenly on everything no matter what (they even talked about switching PM half way through the mandate) so it would be very bad advertisement to not keep to it when the tables turn, which the Mayors wouldnt risk as they are currently possibly the "cleanest/trustworthy" party in the politics for general public
Opposition forces from across the field joining up to take out incumbent corrupt right-wing regimes seems to be a bit of a trend right now. I'm from Bulgaria and that's what we've been trying to do for the past 8 months, so far without much success
The new government is Right-wing. ANO is the center and in coalition with ČSSD, they were the center-left government. Also, this is the first time in history when we do not have any true social left-wing party in parliament. I truly do not get why the west has the need to call left and right everything as in the stupid US dual-party system. In Czech politics, we use terms left and right only for economic affairs. ODS is right wind, conservative, slightly nationalistic (because they are eurosceptics) liberals. And in fact, they are closer to ANO than to their coalition partners. The biggest difference is that ODS represents rich Praguers and ANO is more social and represents more countryside.
It's hard to pull things to the centre when the far right mobilized and successfully shifted the Overton window
Babis being "right-wing" is the funnies thing I've heard in a while.
ANO was "catch all populist" supported by Socialist democrats and Communist party... if thats what you mean by "far-right regime"...
ODS is centrer right conservative party, TOP is wannabe conservative party. KDU is christian conservativ..
@@vladsikorsky7931 can you really blame me when most popularist parties are associated with the alt and far right like Trump, he was a popularist rather than a demagogue
I think the Czechs public are not going to be happy either way. They difficulties they face cannot be solved by one political party or another.
This reminds me of Israel's political situation quite a bit, where a bunch of political parties even more diverse, ranging from communists to far-right islamists but mainly dominated by center-right and leftist parties united as one massive coalition against bibi. They managed to govern pretty well at least until now, so I hope czechia will also be able to govern competently.
“Far-right islamists” wait what?
@@phongduong7486 ra'am, the far-right islamist party that was too radical even for the joint list, a part of Islamic movement and strongly oposses things like zionism or gay rights. They were very often blamed to be connected to terrorists, and while they probably aren't they still are very favorable towards them. In my opinion the Israeli Left's reliance on Arab voters as a counterbalance to ultra-orthodox voters on the right is not very sustainable, and they should try to get more voters to move to them rather than to ally with the Arab parties. For instance, many communists vote for the Arab joint list instead of the Jewish leftist parties, since it includes hadash, which is a Marxist-Leninist party. They should try to get those voters back rather than rely on a demographic that will eventually outnumber them and is strongly opposed to many of the Israeli Left's core values.
There are no leftist parties in Israel. It's a right-wing shithole.
Israel is a de facto one-party state, All the parties subscribe to the same ideology in one form or another, Zionism.
@@internetual7350 what the fuck? On the left there are parties like the aforementioned hadash that are so anti-zionist and communist they oppose the existence of almost any state let alone Israel, and on the other side of the spectrum you have far-right religious extremists, both Jewish like otzma yehudit and Islamic like ra'am. Israel has more political diversity than America or any European country by a long shot, and while I don't think it's a good thing since it legitimizes some horrible people but it is absurdly wrong to call it a one-party state.
almost the same as slovakia's situation. The only thing that unites the coalition is the shared hatred towards previous government. Aside from that, they cannot agree on anything.
Antifa isn't an organisation. And being anti fascist shouldn't be controversial
Basically the absolute same thing is happening in Bulgaria.
Replace Borissov with Babis and you have the same picture 1:1 100%...
Will there be a video on the shenanigans in Romanian politics in the past few months? For the memes?
what a mess!
From my point of view the biggest core problem is Babiš himself. If he´s not in the politics, then the parties return to their normal programs, competing left wing vs right wing, liberals vs conservatives and it will again become normal democratic competition, not with this idiotic Babiš, Czech Berlusconi doing populist bad short-term destructvie politics and anticorruption while he's one of the most corrupt politicians himself. Its incredible how one person can cause such a chaos in the whole country just by his presence. If he cared about our country he would step out from the high politics, because he sees how it destroys the country.
there is other reason for Pirates poor reason as well. They had 2/3 of candidates on the vote ballot because in preferencies they were mutch biger party than Starostové a nezavislý. But here you can either cast the balot only or you can circle you desireble candidates on balot. (its calld preferencial votes) And basicly local mayors and other regionaly known personalities from that movement outjumpt them. ( you have 4 pref. voltes and candidates who got more than 5% pref. from all votest for the cand. list can outjump candidates above.) Pirates voters usualy vote for whole list without pref., starostove a nez. voters usualy used perf. votes for their candidates. So they gain so mutch form the system. (Last election, they nearly didnt made it to the parlament with 5,1% and now they are 3rd biggest party in parlament.
Don't know why being in Antifa would be bad, 🤷♀️
Groups that support politically motivated violence and criminality are destabilising, voters don't like that.
@@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts But it's good politically motivated violence against bad people
@@ProfessionalBadPerson any unneccesary violence is bad, especially if innocent people's livelihoods that are not in any way affiliated with fascists and others are being attacked. they are just an angry mob that feels that their communist way of thinking is the only correct one
@@patakplaylist5469Luckily they don't often do that
It would be really nice if you make a video about Iceland
It’s not Aa-noo, it’s a-noh
If babis tries to stamp them out it will unite them if he sits back they will fight eachother bc of there differences if i was babis id let them fight eachother
He is almost unable to do that. He could appoint someone else to be a premier last time and stay as Finance minister, but that is not his style.
He's almost guaranteed to run for presidency the next year.
One note - Babiš (Babis) is pronounced with "sh" at the end, sounds like "sh" in the word "show".
Will you cover romanian politics??
I dont think they are interested
@「 Deadpoppin 」 Honestly that's a fitting name for the government that is in power right now
Great video as always. There's a lot of things to say about this recent election, probably enough for a few more videos :D but in the end, even if a lot of people didn't get exactly the results they wanted (myself included), the one thing that has probably made a large majority of the country happy, is that for the first time since 1920s! (except for WW2 obviously) there isn't a single communist in either of the chambers of parliament. And honestly that just makes me smile and forget about the fact that this government most likely won't make it full 4 years...
Disclaimer: by "communist" I meant a member of the communist party. I am well aware that Babiš himself was (accused of) collaborating with StB (think KGB in USSR or Stasi in East Germany) which could make him a "communist" in someome's view...
Well I hope his cooking channel continues to go wonderfully on YT though
Time for some good old fashion defenestration
A nice video, short pronunciation tip though: Babiš and ANO = Babish, ANoh
Well, unfortunately not at all. He's a favorite for upcoming presidential election. Don't ask me how, I don't get it either.
Yeah, and it only took a coalition of five parties to do it
And?...
i think what they need to do is to just hold their positions for 4 years and show the public they are better off without babis.
Such a complicated elections system for a country with only 16 million people.
The Pirates across the world are rising in popularity, even the US Pirate Party
A five party coalition is good. We can see that the current Israeli Government is very popular and successful despite having ideological differences. In an Indian state, a far Right and 2 left parties formed an alliance and people thought it won't work, but today they are the strongest alliance and the most popular too
Which state dude?
19% trust and Babiš almost won. 4 seats Pirates still gets 2 ministries. It's uncohesive and divided government. That's why democracy is a failure
I read the title as 'Czechs get rid of billions of babies'
Babish.
It's Babish.
Very well made video. greetings from Czechia.
Czech parliament voting on Polish women's abortion rights would be an interesting development 🙃 8:20
they talk about right of polish women to have an abortion in czech republic when they can't have it in poland
"Babiš" is pronounced "babbish", not "babbis". Those squiggles matter.
But it shows how effective our alphabet is, you can still read it somehow, when you say normal S instead of Š, it's still understandable. If you try to pronounce Babish without knowledge that SH is softened S, then you say total nonsense.
Its a shame the pirate party did so poorly. I was really hoping they would do well
Well done for just the facts. Small correction: @8:21 "...abortion access for Polish women..."
I misread the thumbnail and read "finally kicking out babies" 😲
The fact a party or a person can lose face due to ties to anti-fascism will forever appall me
that is because we all seen the bullshit the "Antifa supporters" pulled over the past few years in USA. Just anarchy and vandalism, angry mob.
Lighting public and private property on fire and breaking display windows of stores on the street, ironically their vandalism looks exactly like enactment of Kristallnacht.
I am also very appalled that some people don't like the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. I mean it says in the name that they're democratic right?
It really is appalling that just being a violent extremist can make someone lose face.
Antifa has many times proven to be a violent extremist far-left organization. So yeah
Czechs and balances.
The Poles weren’t looking good for Babis.
Dobra. Peace out.
Slava Czechia babeh! X
Interesting times. As a Brit in Prague, looking forward to seeing things progress
Support your favorite country including the EU. Let's fucking go
My name says it all: Babiš is pronounced with an sh (š=sh) (just like Babis from the Binging with Babish cooking channel); ANO is pronounced just like the game, Anno1800 or whatever variation of that game, not with a "u" at the end but a plain "o"
Countries need boring and diligent politicians, not ones who can charm their way through mistakes and wrongdoings
atleast they seem to have an actual democracy where ideologies can actually be voted in, unlike america
More party systems give us more varieties of political ideologies we choose from. But the problem is that politicians sometimes dont do what they say, so ideology sometimes dont matter.
The wealthy, old, and corrupt shall prevail. Change is only possible when the will of the electorate is overwhelmingly in favor of it.
Didn't know that that food blogger was also a Czech politician.
which food blogger? hah
kind of like in Belgium
they need 7 party's to get a majority... only thing they have in common is they hate the far right party...
meanwhile, 2 of the most popular party's get left in the cold...
sometimes hard to call this system an actual democracy