PM Petr Fiala refers to ODS as a “conservatively liberal” political party, which means it up-holds liberal Western values and the democratic system and also promotes such things asfree enterprise, private ownership and socially conservative ideas. What Pres. Petr Pavelrepresents is harder to pin down. He’s clearly liberal in terms of Western values, and he supports the Fiala government’s cost-cutting efforts, but he usually hedges in terms of social is-sues to the point of not making his views clear. Yet when he promised the Senate on Dec. 14that one of his future nominees to the Constitutional Court would be “conservative,” he wasin essence acknowledging that all of his candidates so far have been progressive. And whenhe addressed young people in his New Year’s address yesterday and said they should try to”change things for the better,” it sounded as though he was awakening to the woke movement. Will Petr Pavel perhaps become the first Czech president to take the side of Palestine?

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