"We will not negotiate with the hunger strikers, we will not negotiate with Greenpeace," Parkanova said. "We will negotiate with the deputies, with you in the parliament," she said in the commercial television station Prima today, when arguing with head of Social Democrat (CSSD) deputies Michal Hasek. Hasek rejected her statement about blackmailers. Tamas told CTK Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek (the Civic Democratic Party, ODS) blackmailed the nation. Along with Tamas and Bednar, a protest action has been Autumn elections to shake ODS rule - Czech CSSD leader Paroubek ...
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This is the case of pushing responsibility for one's life and health onto others. I clearly say this amounts to blackmail and I know that one must not discuss with blackmailers," Parkanova said. "It is only them themselves who bear responsibility for the behaviour that seriously harms them," Parkanova said. Hasek said the two men represented the views of two-thirds of Czech society. Hasek stressed the senators for the CSSD had decided to support Tamas and Bednar with a chain hunger strike. Head of Social Democrat senators Alena Gajduskova said she was prepared to start it herself. The beginning of the chain strike depended on the agreement with the hunger strikers, Gajduskova said. Anyone replacing them would be on a hunger strike for 48 hours until their demands are met, she added. The hunger strikers insist on four demands. First, the interruption of the negotiations about the radar base with the United States for one year. Second, a request for the European Union's official stand. Third, convocation of a parliament session on the topic, and fourth, organising a television discussion on the radar base that would be attended by four opponents and four supporters of the U.S. plan. The United States wants to build the radar base and a base for ten interceptor missiles in Poland within its missile shield. The Czech-U.S. treaties are to be signed by July. The Central European elements are to protect the United States and a large part of the European continent against missiles that states like Iran might launch. Two thirds of the Czech public are still opposed to the radar base, according to the latest public opinion polls.
(Ceske Noviny)
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