Around 70,000 demonstrators demand new gas deal with Russia and end to sanctions over war in Ukraine
is facing an autumn of discontent after an estimated 70,000 demonstrators gathered in Prague to protest at soaring energy bills and demand an end to sanctions against Russia over the war in Ukraine.
His five-party coalition had on Friday survived a parliamentary confidence vote, triggered by the opposition, which accuses the government of being unable to deal with rising domestic fuel bills and bring under control an inflation rate that has surged to 18%, among the highest in the EU. Fiala, the leader of the Civic Democratic party and a former politics professor, dismissed the demonstration as extremist and fuelled by Russian propaganda.
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