Overview
- SPD released video showing newly elected Speaker Tomio Okamura holding a ladder as a worker took down the flag.
- The flag had flown over the Chamber of Deputies since February 24, 2022 as a sign of solidarity with Kyiv.
- Opposition lawmakers from ODS, STAN and the Pirate Party responded by hanging Ukrainian flags from their office windows in the building.
- Former speaker Markéta Pekarová Adamová criticized the removal, calling the flag a symbol of humanitarian solidarity.
- Okamura won the speakership on November 5 in a secret ballot with 107 of 200 votes, and the building now displays the Czech, EU and Israeli flags.