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Czech far-right party considering forming "protection" guards

22 October 2012
2 minute read

The Czech nationalist Workers’ Party, a ultra-right extra-parliamentary entity, is considering forming its own "protection teams" that would secure order at the party events and also monitor problems involving immigrants, among others, the party head Tomas Vandas said today.

The teams "would be a part of our party, unarmed, I have to add in order to prevent some from imagining something horrible," Vandas said.

He dismissed any similarity between the teams and bodies such as SA guards in Nazi Germany.

The members of the Workers Party’s teams would not have any uniforms, they would probably wear T-shirts with the party logo, Vandas told journalists after the meeting of the party leadership.

"They definitely will not raise people’s fears. They will simply be young people who want to help solve the unpleasing situation in some crisis areas and the influx of immigrants," he added.

The Workers’ Party has been for several months in dispute with the Interior Ministry over its logo featuring among extremist parties’ logos in a booklet the ministry had distributed to police officers.

The Workers’ Party was already mentioned as an ultra-nationalist entity in a report on extremism in the Czech Republic in 2005.

Vandas said the party continues to be based on the national, social and conservative pillars. It asks for the Czech Republic’s withdrawal from the EU and NATO military structures. It wants the IDs of all Czech inhabitants to feature the information on their holders’ ethnicity, and it demands full cultural assimilation of legal immigrants.

In addition to these traditional goals, the party has newly extended its programme to include the demand for a moral protection of society, ban on all drugs and a change in the Labour Code so that it does not escalate relations between employers and employees.

"The emphasis on the nation and social issues can make our party attractive for the people who are in bad economic situation," Vandas said.

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