>> President-elect Petr Pavel, February 23, 2023.
Prague – This morning in Prague, President-elect Petr Pavel will meet the first vice-chairman of the opposition ANO, Karel Havlíček, and the head of the movement's parliamentary club, Alena Schillerová. They will mainly be about the planned valorization of pensions, the form and method of approval of which the opposition criticizes.
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Photo gallery: President-elect Petr Pavel
The House of Representatives will meet on Tuesday, February 28, regarding the controversial government proposal to reduce the June valorization of pensions. ANO and other SPD opposition movements have already announced obstructions. In addition to the proposal itself, they also question the state of legislative emergency, which was declared by the head of the lower chamber, Markéta Pekarová Adamová (TOP 09), at the request of the government, and which is supposed to enable faster approval. If the law is adopted, the opposition legislators are talking about challenging it at the Constitutional Court. The cabinet justified the request to declare a state of legislative emergency by the threat of significant economic damage.
So far, Pavel has discussed mainly with government ministers Spolu (ODS, KDU-ČSL, TOP 09) and Pirátů with STAN, this week with the deputy prime minister and the minister of labor and social affairs by Marian Jurečka (KDU-ČSL). He said on Wednesday that Pavel had heard all the arguments for reducing the valuation of pensions. According to the Lidovec chairman, the new president asked about all the pitfalls, including the discussion of changes in the state of legislative emergency, and he is very well acquainted with the topic of pensions. Jureček did not want to comment on Pavlov's positions.
