There will be holidays and vacations.
The dates on the calendar more than suggest that holidays and vacations will be upon us soon. Most of us can venture out of our jobs for two or three weeks, the lucky ones can manage four. We will help ourselves to a better balance of days off and working days by having one holiday (Cyril and Methodius) right at the beginning of the holiday season, but this year we really only have one. Teachers and educators have their two to three months off due to the continuity of the school year. Politicians will also rest. The Prague City Council, for example, will meet three times during the two longest summer months, while normally it meets four to five times a month. It will therefore function at one third of its normal capacity. The HMP will even pause for a net three months, from the twenty-first of June until the nineteenth of September. Demonstrators regularly convened by the Million Moments for Democracy association are also taking a kind of vacation, and those who are supposed to professionally deal with EU audits on the topic of subsidies and their use in the Czech Republic are also taking a mandatory break. If the accredited translators and ministerial lawyers are also on holiday, a month or two or three will be no mean feat and the whole case will not move forward much. The summer months are also an important time for the discussion of the draft state budget. The 40 billion deficit planned by Alena Schiller is only liked by the ANO movement, while others, including coalition partner ČSSD and the positionally strong Communists, have little problem with it. If the planned budget is not fine-tuned to a form that would confirm the economic literacy of the drafters, it will be a signal that the politicians' sense of responsibility in relation to the upcoming period is being blunted. In order for the bill to be presented to the House in September and to be based on a consensual outcome of the debate, there will be no choice but to limit the use of holidays by the institutions and persons in charge and to have a detailed discussion on savings, the structure of the various budget chapters, the composition of the items and the priorities of our society. Otherwise, at the end of the year, there is a risk that a poor-quality, purpose-built law will be voted through by a majority in which extremists will play their part. Whether left or right.
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