Some 50,000 protesters gathered on Wenceslas Square this week to rail against Andrej Babis
biggest so far of a series of weekly demonstrations against the Czech government. On May 21st some 50,000 protesters, more than double last week’s number, gathered on Wenceslas Square, the focal point of the Velvet Revolution in 1989 and the anti-communist revolt in 1968, to rail against Andrej Babis, a billionaire industrialist who has been prime minister since October 2017.
The protesters are incensed by Mr Babis’s latest attempt to capture the Czech Republic’s institutions by replacing Jan Knezinek, the justice minister, with Marie Benesova, a loyal footsoldier of Milos Zeman, the president and an ally of the prime minister’s. Mr Babis is facing criminal charges related to his alleged misuse of 50m koruna in European Union funds earmarked for small businesses. Mr Knezinek was pushed out a day after the police recommended Mr Babis be charged for fraud.
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