“I didn’t say a word all day today. However, what Marek Benda said just now put me back on my feet. He said that we are dealing with a matter that has nothing to do with the interests of the Czech Republic. That’s true, Mark, because the interests of the Sudetenland German Landsmanschaft are being dealt with here,” Fiala began his speech on Wednesday at around one o’clock in the morning at the ongoing session of the House of Representatives.
“This is the biggest conflict between the coalition and the opposition in the last twenty years. You defended the interests of the Sudeten German Landsmanschaft here to the blood today instead of the interests of those people who died in those concentration camps. Go to hell,” said Fiala, slamming his hand on the table.
His words were applauded by the Speaker of the House Tomio Okamura. “It is a fully adequate statement regarding the treasonous and anti-Czech behavior of some opposition MPs,” Okamura told Novinka about Fialo’s words. “Radim expressed it against the incredible lies and attacks of the opposition and the incredible incitement of hatred, I think, correctly. I would not use that term, but after hours of lies and insults from the opposition, it was a characteristic term,” he added.
The vulgarity left the deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, Patrik Nacher (ANO), calm, who responded as the chairman: “I will ask for calmness and return to the fact that when you address each other, it is through the chairman.”
The convention of Sudeten Germans will be held in Brno from May 22 to 25. It will be the first time in the Czech Republic. It also includes a commemoration of the victims of the Second World War, concerts and religious services. The Bavarian government will contribute 850 thousand euros (about 21 million crowns) to it.
At least a thousand participants should arrive. The Minister of the Interior of the German government, Alexander Dobrindt, will also appear, and Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder (both CSU) announced his participation. They were invited by the Meeting Brno initiative, which has been organizing the festival of the same name since 2016. Its goal is to help reconciliation and the search for common paths.
Vulgarities did not appear in the House for the first time. For example, in 2021, the Social Democratic Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tomáš Hanzel, turned off the microphone of deputy Lubomír Volné, who was elected for the SPD, but was no longer affiliated at the time. This situation was followed by a physical dispute, where Volný, among other things, said: “If you mess around here, you’ll get slapped.”
Petr Fiala was also vulgar
“I’m sick of it too,” said the then Prime Minister Petr Fiala from the ODS in 2022 at a meeting before the vote of confidence in the government. At that time, the microphone at the president’s lectern was running, and therefore his words were caught, and they are also on the camera recording.
The microphone similarly “betrayed” the then Minister of Finance Alena Schillerová (ANO), whose words were picked up by a nearby microphone in the government bench six years ago. She ended the debate with the then head of the Social Democrats, Jan Hamáček, with the words: “Next time I’ll piss on you.”
The pirate MP Mikuláš Ferjenčík was also vulgar in 2018, when he explained why he would vote for the government’s proposal supporting the slowing down of salary growth for MPs and constitutional officials.
“When I come to our pub in Choltice, I want to be able to look the regulars in the eyes and say that I’m not the kind of scumbag who would add 20 percent if he could do something about it,” he said at the time.
In 2007, then Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek from the ODS showed a raised middle finger to former People’s Finance Minister Miroslav Kalouska. According to him, the gesture should mean: “You are number one.”
