Far-right leader Tomio Okamura nominated as Czech parliament speaker

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The chairman of the Motorists' Party parliamentary club, Boris Šťastný, described as disinformation on Saturday that the deputies of the emerging coalition should sign a commitment to elect Tomi Okamura from the SPD as the head of the Chamber of Deputies. He said this in a Saturday discussion program on TV Nova. He emphasized that the coalition agreement as such is devoid of any names.

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ODS senator and former Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Miroslava Němcová sharply criticized in an interview with ČT24 that SPD leader Tomio Okamura is to become Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies. If ANO Chairman Andrej Babiš did not give Okamura this position, he could not offer him a better one, in order to gain the obedience of the entire SPD club and thus ensure that he would not be extradited for criminal prosecution in the Stork's Nest …