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More than 250,000 people gathered in Prague on Saturday to protest against the Czech Prime Minister and for the independence of justice. The protesters blame billionaire Andrej Babis for his conflict of interest and his communist past, as the country celebrates on November 17 the thirtieth anniversary of its velvet revolution.
With our correspondent in Prague, Alexis Rosenzweig
Five months after the last major demonstration on the Letna esplanade in Prague, it was first the young leaders of the collective called "One Million Moments for Democracy" who urged the head of the government to dismiss the Minister of Justice and break its ties with the industrial and media empire that it began to build from the transition to the capitalist economy.
Several former dissidents of the 1980s also took the floor to denounce the excesses of an oligarchic power exerted by Andrej Babis , with the support of the President of the Republic, Milos Zeman.
Pavel is a student, born ten years after the fall of communism, he made several hundred kilometers to come to demonstrate with several of his friends: " We come to protest against the corruption of the Prime Minister and the complicity of our president with Russia and China. It is also evident because Andrej Babis collaborated with the communist secret police and his government is currently relying on the voices of communist deputies. "
30 years after the Velvet Revolution, this anniversary has a bitter taste for some in Prague. And even if the Prime Minister's party is always in the lead polls opinion, Andrej Babis is, every November 17, forced to come as discreetly as possible deposit flowers in front of the monument dedicated to this revolution, under pain of being conspired by the crowd.