TOP 09 stage Cabinet meeting walk out, demand Bátora’s exit

TOP 09 seeks head of Ladislav Bátora, who called party chair and Foreign Minister Schwarzenberg a ‘sorry little old man’ on Facebook

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Brian Kenety | 17.08.2011

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Ultra-conservative public official Ladislav Bátora, an adviser to the education minister, has lashed out against homosexuals and political correctness

All five Cabinet ministers from TOP 09, the second of the three parties in the coalition government, walked out of Wednesday’s government meeting to protest insults to their party chairman, Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg, 73, posted by Ladislav Bátora, a controversial ultra-right adviser to the Education Minister Josef Dobeš (VV), on his Facebook page last week. There is no love lost between TOP 09 and VV, but the war of words might have simmered on a slower boil had Bátora not lashed out against the gay festival Prague Pride.

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