We Will Abolish the Fees, Babiš Repeated. He Also Linked the Criticism to the "Abuse" of November 17th

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"They probably didn't expect us to do it so quickly," Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO) said on Friday in a message on social media to opponents of the abolition of public media financing through concession fees. He was referring to the surprising inclusion of the amendment in Friday's session of the Chamber of Deputies. Babiš reiterated that the government coalition wants to push through the change and thus fulfill a pre-election promise.

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Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO) called the opposition's words that the abolition of fees for Czech Television and Czech Radio is their nationalization and an attack on democracy a lie. The government is fulfilling its promise and will abolish the fees, he said.

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According to Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, it is nonsense that his government wants to influence public media or that it wants to nationalize them, as the opposition claims. The sudden inclusion of the item on changing the financing of Czech Television and Czech Radio in the program of the Chamber of Deputies, according to him, only means that the government wants to fulfill its election promise. Cancellation of concessions In a video that …

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Government MPs surprised their opposition colleagues by unexpectedly pushing a proposal to abolish media fees into the Chamber of Deputies' agenda. They immediately changed their plans and returned to Prague. We describe how the opposition is proceeding.