A wild day was crowned by a Turek: Disgusting blackmail from Pavel. Also threats

MP Filip Turek (for Motorists) commented on the open dispute between President Petr Pavel and Minister Petr Macinka over the exchange of SMS messages on the live broadcast of Xaver Live. "The President should not publish private correspondence. It is one of the biggest blunders that anyone can do," he said.

President Petr Pavel said at an extraordinary press conference on Tuesday that Foreign Minister and head of the government's Motorists party Petr Macinka sent his advisor Petr Kolář SMS messages that the head of state considers an attempt at blackmail. The conflict is related to the nomination of Filip Turek for the post of Minister of the Environment, which the president rejects.

Filip Turek described today's developments as harsh and spoke of a fundamental failure in the entire case. "Petr Macinka had some communication with Mr. Kolář from Hrad and for me the biggest shame of all and the worst of all that can happen happened, and that is when someone publishes private communication," he said in a live broadcast on Xaver Live, adding that it was something unimaginable.

"Even if there was de facto anything in those messages, it was a private communication. Not even with the president, but with the spokesman or whoever it is, or with some representative. It's certainly not something the public needs," added Filip Turek about the exchange of SMS between Petr Macinka and Petr Kolář.

Regarding the publication of screenshots of this private communication, he added that the content of the messages had been completely misinterpreted. "By the way, the communication did not contain any, really any blackmail or threats. Not even any vulgarity. It is normal political pressure if the president has stopped following the rules and laws of the Czech Republic," said Filip Turek.

" One of the biggest hoards. That's below the level of a head of state."

In response to Hrad's action, he did not spare criticism of President Petr Pavel: "The President should behave like a man and should not publish private correspondence. It is one of the biggest blunders that anyone can do. It is usually done by some disgruntled mistresses or people of not quite high standing who are trying to harm someone. These communist intelligence practices seem to me to be truly below the level of a head of state," continued the honorary president of the Motorists.

Filip Turek then commented on President Petr Pavel's extraordinary speech and stated that, in his opinion, the whole situation did not arise by chance. According to him, the core of the dispute is the president's long-term approach to constitutional rules and to himself.

"Even if there was de facto anything in those messages, it was a private communication. Not even with the president, but with the spokesman or whoever it is, or with some representative. It's certainly not something the public needs," added Filip Turek about the exchange of SMS between Petr Macinka and Petr Kolář.

Regarding the publication of screenshots of this private communication, he added that the content of the messages had been completely misinterpreted. "By the way, the communication did not contain any, really any blackmail or threats. Not even any vulgarity. It is normal political pressure if the president has stopped following the rules and laws of the Czech Republic," said Filip Turek.

" One of the biggest hoards. That's below the level of a head of state."

In response to Hrad's action, he did not spare criticism of President Petr Pavel: "The President should behave like a man and should not publish private correspondence. It is one of the biggest blunders that anyone can do. It is usually done by some disgruntled mistresses or people of not quite high standing who are trying to harm someone. These communist intelligence practices seem to me to be truly below the level of a head of state," continued the honorary president of the Motorists.

Filip Turek then commented on President Petr Pavel's extraordinary speech and stated that, in his opinion, the whole situation did not arise by chance. According to him, the core of the dispute is the president's long-term approach to constitutional rules and to himself.

In summary, he described President Petr Pavel's speech at the press conference as strange and self-pitying. According to him, the president repeats the same criticisms and overlooks the basic principles of the Czech political system. "I found this press conference to be more or less self-pitying. In his short speech, the president basically needed to say that Petr Macinka has no experience, that I am a controversial person and that we have no right to put any political pressure on him. However, he does not realize that we live in a parliamentary democracy, not in a presidential or semi-presidential system. I find it rather strange," Turek noted.

On the contrary, he recalled how the head of state blackmailed someone after the elections: "If anyone blackmailed or threatened someone, it was when the president did not want to appoint Andrej Babiš as prime minister and forced him to give up Agrofert until after his own death. That was at a time when there was no conflict of interest at all. It was disgusting. It was disgusting to watch how Babiš, as the most successful and powerful politician in this country, was blatantly blackmailed from the position of president. That was blackmail," the MP stated.

Among other things, he mentioned a specific email he received at the beginning of January from a person who works as the head of the environmental department at the city hall of the Prague district of Horní Počernice. On January 12th at 1:00 p.m., during working hours, he sent him an email from his work mailbox, a copy of which was also sent to the Castle. "Don't touch the president of the country. Don't try anything. I will use a higher legal principle. The moral principle stands above the administration, the work, the letter, the wording and the meaning of the laws. And this also applies to criminal law," he threatened.

Then he wrote to Turek that he was 50 years old and was ready to bear the consequences of his application of a higher principle. "If you rub shoulders with the president of the country, who has more than 3.6 million mandates, I will violate the law," the local government official said. Then he appealed to Jozef Gabčík and Anna Malinová (Gabčík's girlfriend, murdered by the Nazis, editor's note), and informed the deputies that he would not allow the Czech land and moral principles to be gambled with. "If you do not understand this, you will bear the consequences," he assured Turek. 

According to Filip Turek, it is logical that Foreign Minister Petr Macinka does not want President Petr Pavel to represent the Czech Republic at NATO negotiations and on foreign trips. He stated that in the current international situation this would be indefensible. "A person who approves the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact troops in 1968, how will he explain to NATO and the world, at a time when there is war in Ukraine and the Russians are attacking, that he is the president of a country that does not respect its democratic system, does not respect its constitution, and even approves the invasion of troops into his own country?" said Turek, adding that he firmly supports Macinka.

Source: Parlamentní Listy