Great actor, but he should quit. Filip Turek dug into the ambassador's scene with Petr Pavel

The next episode of the series Motorists Troll the Castle, The Castle Strikes Back, is out. This time the shootout didn't start over the NATO summit or the minister, but over a pen in Chile. Filip Turek suggests that the moment with the non-writing pen and the prompt Petr Pavel didn't seem entirely spontaneous, and he kicked the Czech ambassador in such a way that it almost sounds like a message that he doesn't have to continue in diplomacy.

One non-writing pen, one prompt president and one old Klaus scar that is apparently still alive. When signing the memorandums between the Czech Republic and Chile on cooperation in space technologies and Antarctic research, Czech Ambassador Pavel Bechný had a problem with the prepared pen. Petr Pavel therefore handed him his own and left it in a box on the table after the ceremony. This very moment has now started another round of political gunfight at home.

The president himself later explained that it was not a random pen from his pocket. He said that he had taken a pen decorated with Czech grenades with him so that he would have something that represented the Czech Republic. He used it for his notes and when he saw that the ambassador's protocol pen was not writing, he automatically gave him his own. Only then did he leave it in Chile.

No one from the Castle has publicly said that it was a symbolic return of the pen for Václav Klaus. But honestly, they didn't even have to say it. The context is all too obvious. It was in Chile in 2011 that the famous footage was taken, showing then-President Václav Klaus putting the protocol pen in his pocket. This year, on the contrary, the Czech president left the pen in the same place. This is the type of political symbolism that even someone who doesn't normally follow presidents' foreign trips will understand.

And this is where Filip Turek stepped in. He wrote on Facebook that "Ambassador Pavel Bechný is a great actor" and that he should "change his profession and leave diplomacy". So Turek did not directly write the sentence that the Castle arranged the whole gesture. But the subtext is quite clear from his comment. When he talks about acting and directly questions the ambassador's professional future, he very clearly indicates that the scene with the non-writing pen strikes him as a well-played etude, not a pure coincidence. When asked by Expres how serious the motorist's threat to the Czech ambassador was, he replied: "If I were him, I would at least think about it," he wrote in response to Expres.cz.

This time, the Turk is not accusing the Castle of violating the constitution, he is more like a troll. But he is trolling exactly where it hurts the most. In the Klaus myth, in the symbols and in the people around the president. And when he adds the sentence that the ambassador should leave diplomacy, it is no longer just a pubescent dig on a social network. It already sounds like an indirect message that, in his opinion, the Czech diplomat was not playing the role of a diplomat, but an extra in a pre-prepared scene.

Moreover, the whole thing fits perfectly into the ongoing war between Motorists and the Castle. After the failure to appoint Turk as Minister of the Environment, there is an obvious cold war between the two camps, in which almost nothing is forgiven.

The result is actually perfectly Czech. Two countries sign memoranda on future cooperation in quite strategic areas, but at home the main issue is whether one pen was deliberately not writing and the other was deliberately prepared. Petr Pavel claims that he acted automatically and then wanted to leave something in Chile that represented the Czech Republic. Filip Turek, on the other hand, makes it clear that the whole thing stinks to him like a practiced joke at the expense of the old Klausovian embarrassment. And that is exactly what has moved the endless series one episode further.

Source: Expres