Houndreds of eggs welcomed Paroubek

Houndreds of eggs welcomed Paroubek

by Larisa

During a meeting of a leading czech political party CSSD in Prague on Wednesday afternoon, members of the party were welcomed by a barrage of eggs flying on the stage. Several large groups of youngsters started throwing hundreds of eggs on the stage as Jiri Paroubek, the party's chairman, and other members started their speech regarding their political programme for the European parliament.

This incident was however only the climax of a serie of similar protests at CSSD's meetings which took place in various cities across the Czech republic for the past month. Everything started with the creation of a facebook group on internet called «an egg for Paroubek in every city». This group encouraged opposers of CSSD and communism, which author of the group presents as ''two equal threats'', to protest against the party by throwing eggs on Paroubek during his speeches. The success of the group however grew surprisingly large: it started with one thrown egg and escalated into CSSD members having to protect themselves with umbrellas from hundreds of eggs.

Pictures and videos from the Prague meeting could be seen in following days in news from all over the world. Indeed, the view was rather disturbing since it were primarely young students who were throwing the eggs and members of the party were simply standing on the stage in a line, refusing to leave. This definitely did not give a good impression about Czech republic to the world, especially since it currently precides the EU. Another sad fact is that most of the protesters were young people who presumable know very little of politics and thus the motivation seemed not to be concerned with the politics but rather with the want to rebel without an actual cause. It is not surprising then that this incident was condemned by large numbers of the public, leading domestic and foreign politics, the Czech president and even the oposition party ODS as well as by me.

"We're not scared of you!"
"You're unable to discuss!"
"This is disguisting and cowardly!"