Václav Havel reiterates support for Czech Green Party
May 29, 2009 in International Greens
As reported earlier here at Green Party Watch, former Czech President and leader of the Velvet Revolution that ended communist domination of the Czechoslovakian government twenty years ago has thrown his support behind that nation’s Green Party. Their website is in Czech.
Now the poet and non-violent political leader has reiterated his support for his nation’s Green Party in an email exchange with The Prague Post, that nation’s English language newspaper. In an email to the paper, Havel writes “Under the leadership of Martin Bursík, this party was able to achieve a number of productive changes to the government, even more than their supporters could have hoped for.”
Havel is encouraging Green Party votes in the upcoming European Parliment vote June 5th and 6th.
Jayne Lattka said on May 29, 2009
Green Party founder Petra Kelly was close friends with the former Czech President.
Petra was a great help to the then author Havel, before the “Velvet Revolution”, the nonviolent overthrow of eastern european dictatorships.
It is good to see Havel hasn’t forgotten the decades of positive impact of the Green Party.
This is great news.
ian said on August 16, 2009
For individual sanity I can see sence in this. To trust or have faith in the main stream political animal nature is souless.
ian said on August 17, 2009
In particular it offers something for the young who feel that main political parties are corrupt and the human idealism that was lost in the ‘power&money’ grab what you can in the 90′s.
Its seems ironic that under totalitarianism the ‘ordinary man’ in the street was paranoid because of state power. Now the ‘men in power’ are paranoid about the ‘ordinary man” who can now ask for explanations on many subjects.