Hradec ANO is not in crisis, sounds from the movement after the departure of two representatives

At the end of 2021, the board decided to cancel the local Hradec Králové organization At that time, Jiří Langer and Věra Pourová, once prominent faces of the movement, announced their departure, disgusted with the party situation.

ANO made a big splash in the Hradec Králové cell, and the answer was a significantly changed candidate list for the autumn municipal elections But the situation that happened 13 months ago is now conspicuously repeating itself.

The movement settles scores with renegades But not only with them.

Although regional chairman Petr Koleta was pleased last year that the rejuvenated candidate had great coalition potential, the opposite was true ANO ended in opposition.

Now they blame the new management, specifically the mayor Pavlína Springerová (HDK) for the problems The movement was thrown off balance considerably when the coalition proposed and then actually promoted Jindřich Outlé, number 11 on the ANO candidate list, as chairman of the finance committee.

The experienced manager announced his departure from the representative club and remained in the 37-member corps as an unclassified representative Monika Štayrová, the former deputy mayor, soon followed him on the "criminal bench".

She also ended up at the club and, like Outlý, cited the hostile atmosphere inside the ANO cell in Hradec Králové as the reason Langer and Pourová expressed themselves very similarly a year ago.

Bad atmosphere? Certainly not! But while ANO admitted to a serious crisis at the time, now everything is officially in perfect order, there is no suffocating atmosphere The only culprits are renegades, or the treacherous coalition that bought Jindřich Outlé.

So far, only two men who have made a huge leap in the hierarchy of the movement in recent months have commented on the problems - the chairman of the representative club Lukáš Fiedler, i e.

number 22 on the list of candidates in 2018, and Denis Doksanský, who did not run at the time Electoral leader Jana Šandová, regional chairman Petr Koleta and deputy and representative authority Jiří Mašek were silent.

"A year ago it was really a crisis It was very personal, some reacted with exasperation, and as soon as you walked into the room, you could feel it wasn't going to work.

Dissolving the organization was the right move and everything has been working since then In a very short time, we managed to put together a great candidate with a very good leader.

The line-up changed and the result also clearly showed that Hradečac wanted and wanted us to get a chance However, I respect that the mayoress put it together from democratic parties, that is, as she says herself.

But we don't have a bad atmosphere," said Petr Koleta "After the departure of both colleagues, there is rather a sense of relief.

It certainly did not negatively affect the atmosphere," stated Jiří Mašek "Now the air has cleared.

It turned out who wants to work and for whom what matters I'm glad it happened now, I'm just sad that the two of them didn't tell us themselves that they were leaving us.

Everything happened behind our backs I'm sorry we weren't worth it to them to tell us everything.

On the other hand, it only brought us together and I have the feeling that we are on a good footing," pointed out Jana Šandová "From the point of view of cooperation in the club, we perceive their departure as a strengthening.

We believe that we will be able to cooperate better and more intensively both within the club and for the benefit of the city," said Lukáš Fiedler "The representative club works as standard.

The two who left us were not among the people who participated significantly in the work recently I would say that there are fewer of us, but our quality has certainly not suffered, on the contrary, it has increased," said former deputy mayor Pavel Marek, who joined the council from 12.

ranks of the ANO candidate, despite the fact that he assumed that he would find himself significantly higher An anonymous editorial source from the ANO cell in Hradec spoke about the fact that Outlé's departure was, to say the least, very surprising and caused a big uproar.

On the contrary, he expected the same step from Štayrová, because she did not hide her dissatisfaction for a long time "In any case, it's a big complication, our colleagues cut themselves off from us, and we can basically expect that, as non-affiliated representatives, they will go to the coalition.

We have called on them to resign and make room for our candidates, but I honestly don't expect them to do that We'll see if anything else happens at the club.

It cannot be ruled out," said a newsroom source on condition of anonymity How many more rebels are there? The difficulties in the camp of the winner of last year's elections in Hradec Králové are related to the presidential defeat of Andrej Babiš rather only peripherally.

But the link is there: After all, in the first round, Monika Štayrová supported Danuša Nerudová with a poster on the fence of her house Jan Jarolím, the mayor of Dvor Králové, has to explain his support to Petr Pavl.

Both thus symbolically joined the other rioters in ANO, the movement's vice-chairman and Moravian-Silesian governor Ivo Vondrák and Ostrava's mayor Tomáš Macura "Macura and Vondrák were the first to allow themselves to be defied and only started the catharsis in the movement.

There are many more such rebels in the regions, for example the mayor of Jarolím I expected Babiš to win in the first round in Dvůr Králové, but it didn't happen.

In my opinion, it is not about ANO, but about Mr Jarolím, who is very popular," pointed out political scientist Jiří Štefek.

"It will be very interesting to see the impact Regional bosses of ANO want to show themselves as people of action in front of Babiš.

However, if they react hysterically and get rid of such people, it is a road to hell for ANO These people are magnets and vote-suckers.

In municipal politics, people don't care who is running for which party If Andrej Babiš wants to follow a path such as Public Affairs, he is on the best path with the purges.

That is why, in my opinion, ANO should now focus not on searching for alleged traitors, but on itself," said the political scientist The current difficulties in the Hradec Klub did not surprise him too much: "The circle of people in the regional ANO movement is more or less the same.

The dissolution and incorporation of the Hradec local organization does not solve anything, because the party line and ideological concept remain the same So new people do not mean a revolution.

" which calls on Outlé and Štayrová to resign as representatives and free up seats for other candidates At the same time, petr koleta leaned against Mayor Springerová.

He blames her for buying Jindřich Outlé a position in the finance committee "On the other hand, it's good to know where certain people are moving with their thinking.

The mayoress reproduces that the YES club is falling apart, while she was the one who was able to skillfully recognize what could be bought However, I am glad that the people from the city management showed themselves in this way, because it certainly strengthened us in terms of coalition potential.

This was a clear signal: whoever does it once will do it again Such people will not last long in politics," predicted the regional head of the movement.

However, according to Springer, ANO is crumbling without the help of the coalition And she rejected accusations of dragging opposition representatives.

"To label his free decision as political corruption is completely misguided The reason why the ANO representative club lost one of the few members with expertise and experience is obviously different.

And I have no doubt that Mr Outlý explained it to his former colleagues and that they know it," emphasized Springerová.

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