Zuzana Majerová is a prominent figure on the Czech political scene. The chair of the Trikolora party and newly elected MP is known for her controversial views and positions that often polarize the public. She is a staunch advocate of traditional family values and a long-term critic of the European Union and its influence on national sovereignty. “We must pursue our own confident policy,” she says.
Your party Trikolora, just like in the European Parliament elections, also ran on a joint ticket with SPD (and with the Free Citizens and PRO) in the autumn domestic elections. And you were successful. But clearly, these parties will not see eye to eye on everything. Have you set any red lines that Trikolora will not cross in the coming months
and years?
Trikolora is certainly a bit further right on economic issues, and we are probably more conservative as well. But when it comes to practical politics, everything has to be resolved through compromise, whether between our two parties or within the broader coalition that is taking shape. Our views are virtually identical on the most important matters, concerning our foreign policy, the Green Deal, the migration pact, or a peaceful, diplomatic resolution of the Ukrainian conflict. There is no need to set red lines. It is all a matter of goodwill and agreement.
The new Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Tomio Okamura, began his term by having the Ukrainian flag removed from the Parliament building. Is that a good start? It somewhat resembles the nationalist gestures we see in Slovakia. In the simple language of symbols, it also signals a departure from anti-Putin policies.
I see it completely differently. In my view, there is no reason why any flag other than the Czech one should hang long-term on the building of the Czech Parliament. Nowhere else in the world is this the case. This yellow and blue flag-waving of ours is a complete oddity and an aberration. Tomio Okamura simply restored normality, not to mention that he was merely fulfilling what SPD promised during its campaign. I understand that after four years of lies and empty promises from the Fiala government, some people were taken aback.
One of your party’s frequent slogans is “Defending the normal world.” What, in your view, is normal, and what does this world need defending from?
These are the same things we have been saying since Trikolora was founded in 2019. Normal is to work, not to live off subsidies. Normal is the existence of two genders. Normal is marriage between one man and one woman. Normal is to take care first of your family, your community, and your country. Normal is to protect our environment, not devise ways to squeeze ordinary people and funnel money into the pockets of a privileged few. Normal is to behave decently and be tolerant. Normal is to strive for peace, not seek ways to prolong military conflicts for as long as possible.
Zuzana Majerová with her husband Honza.
You have been a long-term critic of the European Union and its laws, which also shape ours. Now that you are back in Parliament, you can change things. What key priorities have you set for yourself in this respect?
We must repair our foreign relations. First and foremost, we must strengthen relations with our brotherly Slovakia, then revive cooperation within the V4, and ideally the V4+, meaning the entire belt of Central European countries from the Baltic Sea to the Adriatic. We must do this in order to defend our shared interests, which are not always identical to those of Western European countries, and certainly not to those of Russia. And finally, we must repair our relations with all global superpowers. The outgoing Fiala government damaged all of this. In short, we must pursue our own confident policy.
Ahead of the elections, you often named the revision of the school system, the abolition of inclusion, tax cuts, and the scrapping of mandatory public broadcasting fees as priorities. What will you begin with – and how?
My speciality and my priority is education. Whether we abolish blanket inclusion entirely or substantially limit it, it will help almost everyone. Under the current system of blanket inclusion, everyone loses: bright children and those less so, talented children and those with disabilities, teachers, headmasters, parents, and ultimately society as a whole. We need to restore our excellent special education system and return to the good old curriculum. We also need to de-ideologize schools again. We pushed out communist propaganda, only for progressive propaganda to force its way in. Schools are for children and teachers, and for parents only when there is a parent-teacher meeting. Political or ideological pressure groups do not belong there, and certainly not LGBT+ propaganda. As for the other issues you mention, we will get to those as well.
The author is a staff writer for Deník
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Zuzana Majerová (born June 28, 1972, in Olomouc) is an MP and the chair of the Trikolora party.
She was already a member of parliament from 2017 to 2021, elected at the time for the ODS. She left ODS at the end of April 2019.
She studied art history at the Faculty of Arts at Palacký University in Olomouc. In her third year, she interrupted her studies and left for Canada, where she spent six years.
After returning to Czechia, she began working in translation and interpreting, and is also a lecturer and teacher of English. She briefly worked at Dermacol Brno as a key account and project manager in foreign trade.
She currently serves in the Chamber of Deputies as vice-chair of the Committee on Science, Education, Youth, and Sports, and also sits on the Committee on European Affairs.
She lives in Bukovany with her husband, Jan Majer. They have two sons.
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