Klaus starts petition against migration
Former president accused of riding populist wave
Prague/Lysá nad Labem, Central Bohemia, Sept 5 (ČTK) — Former Czech president Václav Klaus works in a populist way with the topic of the migrant crisis, Interior Minister Milan Chovanec (Social Democrats, ČSSD) said in reaction to a petition against migration that Klaus launched.
In the petition, Klaus calls for the government to ensure internal security and the outer inviolability of the border of the country with all means, including the police and military.
He wrote that the government is passive in reacting to the migration crisis.
Chovanec said Klaus is neither the first nor the last politician trying to make use of the crisis in a populist way.
"This government is doing its utmost for the Czech Republic not to end up like the neighboring countries where refugees in a pitiful condition can be seen in public places, at railways," Chovanec said.
Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka (ČSSD) said Klaus's petition does not move the debate on migration anywhere and that clear steps on the level of the European Union, not petitions are needed to cope with the situation.
Klaus also called for the rejection of any quotas for refugee sharing, observance of the valid asylum policy agreements and for the rejection of any pressure for changing them with the aim of facilitating further immigration.
The petition is available at www.protiimigraci.cz. Klaus is its first signatory.
"We do not want to continue passively looking on our constitutional officials, the government, political representatives losing time and being idle at this crucial moment," Klaus wrote.
He wrote that mass migration is a serious threat to the stability of Europe, to the individual EU member countries, including the Czech Republic.
"I would like to stress that we are not indifferent to the hardship of thousands of people who are a product of wars and similar disasters, but - and this is fundamentally important - we reject manipulation of the public opinion, the creation of the false feeling of solidarity with these migrants," Klaus wrote.
He said the Czech government does not adequately stand up to the mounting pressures by leaders of the European great powers. The fears of the public of migration should not be belittled by official places.
"Various elitist political groups - hidden behind the facade of scientists, academics or quasi moral authorities - are presented as a norm of the public opinion," Klaus wrote.
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