Thousands of protesters launched a huge demonstration across Prague on Saturday against the raising of the prices, and the inflation as well as the support to Ukraine exhausted the Czech economy.

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 Edited by tony wild
world news section
12 March 2023 - France

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Under the banner "Czechia Against Poverty", the protest was organized by the Pravo Respekt Odbornost (PRO) party.

Protesters have called for the Czech government to resign amid rising inflation and prices. The protesters also called to end the support to Ukraine as it exhausted the economy.

Thousands of people went in a huge demonstration to the streets of the Czech capital Prague on Saturday.
They protest high prices, for which they blame the center-right government's focus on supporting Ukraine against the Russian invasion.

In addition, demonstrators demanded to halt arms deliveries to Kyiv and put forward a proposal to hold a peace conference in Prague. Some held banners explicitly against the country's membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

Though the year-on-year inflation in the Czech Republic fell to 16.7 percent in February from 17.5 percent in January, this was still well above the tolerance threshold of 3 percent set by the Czech National Bank.

An analysis performed by PAQ Research and published by Czech Radio in December 2022, predicted that up to 30 percent of households in the Czech Republic could fall into poverty on the back of rising energy and housing costs this year.