Thousands turn out for anti-government protest in Prague

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

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PRAGUE (AP) — Thousands of people rallied again in the Czech capital on Sunday to protest high inflation and demand the government’s resignation.

It was the second such rally at Prague’s Wenceslas Square after one on March 11 that was organized by a new political party known as PRO under an “against the poverty” banner.

The demonstrators, speakers at the protest and the head of the populist group, Jindrich Rajchl, blamed the European Union and the Czech government for soaring inflation and all repeatedly called on the current five-party coalition to resign.

“We want the government’s resignation,” Rajchl told the crowd. Rajchl, a lawyer by profession, is the former deputy head of the Czech soccer association.




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[JI7]

1. Why do they blame the govt ?

[The Mouth]

2. Good.

Inflation should always result in the government being tossed ouot.

anything over 3% is a criminal assault on the lower and middle classes and anyone in power when it happens should be given a hard time.

At least to me, *nothing* matters more.

[Igel]

4. So ... Biden? n/t

[The Mouth]

5. He got the hint, didn't he?

Thank goodness, too. I see it as he did everything he could, given the corporatist idiots running the fed and other institutions. It's down and looks to keep going down. Not fast enough but politics is the art of the possible.

It does amaze me that so many supposed progressives and liberals were trying to rationalize inflation with such hateful bullshit as 'well, we're recovering from the pandemic' or 'blah blah blah the war in Ukraine'.

Inflation first, inflation foremost; anyone not attacking inflation is a lying sack of shit if they claim to care about the poor or middle class. Before foreign policy, before the any climate issue, first and foremost the business of the government is the economy.

We need to get gas and natural gas prices way way down, still, though.

It's the workers who matter. It's the working class and those who can't provide for themselves that I judge a government or presidency by. The folks who build things, who fix things, who move things from one place to another, and the people who WANT to work but can't; I couldn't care less about the rich or those who have given up.

[Lithos]

3. RW agitprop paid by Putin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law,_Respect,_Expertise