Status: 09/28/2022 7:39 p.m
Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Prague against sanctions against Russia over Moscow’s war of aggression in Ukraine. They called for the cabinet of Czech Prime Minister Fiala’s liberal-conservative government to resign.
Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Prague against the liberal-conservative government of Prime Minister Petr Fiala. On the central Wenceslas Square, the organizers demanded the resignation of the cabinet and an end to the sanctions against Russia because of the Ukraine war. They also spoke out in favor of military neutrality, even though the Czech Republic is a NATO member.
AfD MEPs with a guest appearance
At the beginning of the event, under the motto “Czech Republic first”, a band considered to be right-wing radicals played the national anthem. The Prague economics professor Miroslav Sevcik was one of the main speakers. He claimed that the sanctions against Russia would hurt the West itself the most.
The German AfD MEP Christine Anderson had a guest appearance. There were also smaller rallies in Brünn (Brno) and Ostrava.
Czech government under pressure
The Czech government had recently come under pressure because of the high energy prices. It recently responded with a relief package that includes, among other things, electricity and gas price caps for households and small consumers. The cabinet provided subsidies amounting to the equivalent of 1.2 billion euros for large-scale consumers from industry.