Stormy response to sacking of National Theatre director

There has been a stormy response to the dismissal of Mr. Burian as National Theatre director. The Social Democrats’ Bohuslav Sobotka called for his reinstatement and described Minister Balvín’s move as scandalous and unacceptable. The former coalition government’s choice for prime minister, Miroslava Němcová, said that her party the Civic Democrats would not now hold a scheduled meeting with interim prime minister Jiří Rusnok because of the sacking and other “purges” his front bench had carried out, the news website Lidovky.cz reported. TOP 09 described Mr. Balvín’s action as alarming.

Author: Ian Willoughby