Prague, June 22 (CTK) – Czech Interior Minister Milan Chovanec (Social Democrats, CSSD) will present information on the prepared police restructuring to the government on Monday, Deputy Prime Minister Pavel Belobradek (Christian Democrats, KDU-CSL) said after a government meeting yesterday.
The material will also contain a report on the negotiations with state attorneys who had objections to the prepared changes, he said.
The prepared police shake-up has caused strong turbulences on the political scene.
Belobradek said the government will be regularly informed about the reform.
Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka (CSSD) said he cannot see any reason to hold a meeting of the National Security Council (BRS) earlier than on July 20 as planned, which the government coalition parties, ANO and the KDU-CSL, call for.
He said the BRS has already debated the police restructuring. In addition, the government stands above the BRS.
Finance Minister Andrej Babis, whose ANO movement threatened to withdraw the government coalition agreement because of the restructuring, repeated that ANO disagrees with the prepared changes.
“But I agree with the prime minister that the government is more than the security council,” Babis said.
He pointed out that the security committee of the Chamber of Deputies will deal with the circumstances of the police restructuring and related claims by police officers from the Squad for Uncovering Organised Crime (UOOZ) on Thursday.
UOOZ head Robert Slachta has resigned in protest against the shake-up as from June 30.
The BRS dealt with the restructuring on Tuesday last week.
Sobotka said the government parties discussed the situation again yesterday and that they will continue to do so at a meeting of the coalition council later yesterday.
