Okamura assisted in removing the flag and posted a report on the X network. In the recording, he stated that he ordered it to be taken down because he had promised to do so during the election campaign. He quoted the pre-election slogan of the SPD movement: “The Czech Republic in first place.”
According to former president of the Chamber of Deputies, Marketa Pekarove Adamove from the conservative TOP 09 party Removing the flag is a shameful gesture. MPs from parties that were in opposition after the elections, in response to Okamura's decision, hung Ukrainian flags from the windows of the premises of their parliamentary clubs. After removing the Ukrainian flag, the flags of the Czech Republic, the European Union and Israel now fly in the building of the lower house of the Czech parliament.which have been hanging there since the Hamas terrorist attack in October 2023.
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Okamura said on Czech public TV that he himself has nothing against Israel, but it is possible that the leadership of the House will discuss the further fate of the country's flag.
53-year-old Tomio Okamura was elected chairman of the Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday by the votes of a new majority with the participation of the populist ANO movement of former Prime Minister Andrej Babisz and the Zmotoryzowani (Motoristie) group, skeptical towards the European Union. It was supported by 107 out of 197 MPs.
