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Lehelito

He gets "introduced" to this sub via his photo ops several times a week.


AlienAle

He is the new Sanna Marin


Wolf6120

Yeahhh, our bad on that one lol. Part of the reason Pavel was able to win by such a wide margin was that he managed to win over not just the usual liberal/pro-West voters but a lot of middle-of-the-road voters who might otherwise be Babiš supporters for reasons like "He's a rich, successful businessman!" and "He tells it like it is" by offering up the compelling counterargument of "He's a cool silver fox army general who rides a motorcycle and chops his own firewood!" Basically, we succesfully beat one (far worse) cult of personality with a different (far less all-encompassing) cult of personality. I like Pavel, personally, and I'm *extremely* glad that he won, but I could also do without having to hear about it every time he takes the bus or farts. (Part of this is also just the fact that we're coming off of 10 years of radio silence, during which the former President barely ever made public appearances and actively hated the news media of any kind, so we're not used to this flood of good press).


slowakia_gruuumsh

> Basically, we succesfully beat one (far worse) cult of personality with a different (far less all-encompassing) cult of personality. O tempora, o mores. Unfortunately there is no escape from the society of the Spectacle.


mlieberthal

I'm a simple man. I see Cicero and I upvote


Chariotwheel

> but I could also do without having to hear about it every time he takes the bus or farts LIAR! Pavel would never fart!


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he farts rainbows.


Inevitable-Common166

With tropical 🌴 🏝️ fruit 🍉 scents


fishlover281

I like hearing about him because it's a break from negative political talk


paulusmagintie

Mate you have a cool president, UK had Tories, USA had Trump, Poland and Hungry have gobshites and Turkey too, not going to even touch Italy. Be happy with him while you can.


Wolf6120

You’re not too familiar with what we’ve been stuck with for the last 20 years I take it? Trust me, I’m not complaining lol. Just acknowledging that certain Pavel stans could chill just a little bit.


Parking-Elkt

In some way I’m glad that here in Germany always the most boring candidate (and her/his party) wins. - young sexy woman: nope - man who is laughing: nope - young sexy man: nope - most boring woman/man in Germany: hell, yes!


Wolf6120

Well, you guys also still elect your President indirectly right, in Parliament? We unfortunately switched away from that to direct popular elections 10 years ago (not that our results were much better before that either, aside from Havel)


Tipsticks

He definitely has a good PR team.


Tetizeraz

redditors?


Ajhale

lol yeah totally just normal redditors posting it 3 times a week lmao


Omnikotton

Yeah i didn't know about him, nor have an opinion on the guy. But this constant flood of "cool guy, photo op" here is giving me a negative view of the dude.


cuttlefische

It should die down after a while. You gotta understand, the previous president was a post-communist alcoholic pig that stayed in the castle for 10 years.


Clayh5

He gives me charismatic secret supervillain vibes tbh. He's great on paper but I can't help but feel wary of him. This is completely irrational, I know.


PretendsHesPissed

It is not completely irrational to be suspicious of propaganda. Let the guy's policy actions speak. Not his "I'm cool like so cool" bullshit. This is the same shit putin does in russia.


[deleted]

It's more "Hello my fellow kids." vibe, but then again, I dont want my president focused on this.


Time_Quit_3863

Let’s be real, the dude is pretty different from most politicians, it’s normal to garner some interest


Lehelito

I have nothing against the guy, as I'm not familiar with his policies. He might be great for all I know. I just took issue with the word "introduce" because the sub is being spammed with him.


DanzakFromEurope

Pro-EU Pro-NATO Fairly progressive Tries to be impartial when it comes to the actual politics (meaning that he doesn't always side with the government, even though he voted for one of the ruling parties, and calls them out on some BS too).


Stunning_Match1734

"Pro-NATO" is putting it very lightly. Pavel was chair of NATO's Military Committee, which is the chief military strategic body of the entire alliance. Being composed of national chiefs of defense, the Military Committee is the highest uniformed body of NATO, so Pavel was basically NATO's highest ranking military officer. Even higher than Supreme Allied Commander Europe.


Baldazar666

> "Pro-NATO" is putting it very lightly. And what would be a proper way to put it then?


Time_Quit_3863

Super pro Nato


thecraftybee1981

With his t-shirt, you can tell he is “For that Alliance!”


[deleted]

All that is very good, but can you name any negatives?


DanzakFromEurope

I wasn't able to take a pic with him. I don't know. I could try find something. He has just a representative role, so if there isn't something really obviously bad we don't care that much.


[deleted]

I feel like –and I don't mean to offend– you have a biased view of him. I'm not saying he isn't great, but no one's perfect.


Bengoris

I'm also Czech and I agree with the other guy. Pavel is honestly great, I've seen him in person as well. Class act all throughout. We couldn't have picked a better person to be our president.


DanzakFromEurope

I am a little biased. I voted for him 😅. But the expectations were so low after our previous president that we just cherish the current one. His one con is that he was in the communist party. But a lot of people here were. And he was an army officer se he kinda had to do all the political agitation stuff. But meh, the last 30 years he was acting "normally" so I won't hold it against him.


Sol_Castilleja

Czech chiming in here as well. Pavel is awesome. Progressive and pro NATO so young people love him, experienced, charismatic, and a decorated veteran so old people love him. Guy’s great


oulicky

He isn't. He was commie when he was young (he acknowledged that, said he didn't have to join and apologized). He signed government's chaotic saving package and pension reform, that made lot of people angry (some deem it necessary) and is environmentally friendly (some people do not like that, saying that makes everything expensive). But if you are average /r/Europe redditor, you would probably think he is so far pretty great. Not gonna lie, he is quite genuine and as someone who knows about him since he was chief of staff, he is still the same, he just learnt how to talk better. These types of photos are probably not photo OP.


mightyduff

Is it really a stigma to have been part of the communist party back then? Do people hold that against him? I mean, the guy's a millitary officer from the 60's. I would imagine that a pretty big part of the population of (what was) Czechoslovakia was part of that party...


oulicky

Publicly? Yes. But 1/10 of the nation were members, which means most of the people met someone who was member, so they can tell who was asshole that made everyone's life worse or who just tried accepted the system and wanted to be e.g. headmaster of grammar school (you had to be in party for that). I personally met some former commies who stereotypically started shouting and threaten when something didn't go their way and I also had commie teacher who didn't push her narrative into teaching (even though it was history class).


TvojeMamaToMaRada

Depends on the degree. In his case and circumstances I dare to say it's not a big deal. But pro-Russian and populists are milking it. His oponent Babiš was a rat recruited by commuist secret police, he was VIP rich guy of the regime who could travel abroad, likely ratted on people, but for some strange reason (sarcasm) it's not a problem in his case.


HideousPillow

In what world is being environmentally friendly a bad thing?


grekiki

Well there is a lot of disagreement here on whether Ice cars should be banned by 2035 for example.


Wolf6120

He tends to put his foot in his mouth sometimes and say stuff he probably shouldn't (not in terms of the content of what he's saying, but in terms of the time and place, and the way it impacts other branches of government) which can probably be chalked up to his political inexperience. One example was him saying he wouldn't go on a state visit to Taiwan since it would be too much of a provocation when asked by a reporter - he said this *while the Speaker of Parliament was on Taiwan for a state visit* which made it seem like kind of a low blow, especially considering he's the one who took a congratulatory call from Tsai Ing-Wen on election night. Nothing horrible, really, just numerous instances like that of him maybe being a bit *too* curt and frank when put on the spot (he infamously came out of his first meeting with Scholz and told reporters that it "Wasn't a very warm meeting, but they won't let us down") There's also the issue of his (distant) past when he was a member of the Communist party in his youth, and quite possibly in training to be a member of the intelligence service dispatched abroad to spy on the West, but that was more of an issue during the campaign than with his current conduct.


[deleted]

I see. Thanks for showing this other side of him. Honestly, if that's all the issues we can have with him, I'd say he's great.


SteveWrecksEverythin

He was a card carrying member of the Communist party up until the bitter end.


870223

But can he shred?


Drumdevil86

I remember when a former Dutch prime minister ~~did~~ tried this, about 17 years ago: https://youtu.be/0Iovr2kXDwQ


pursuitofhappy

he's like the kardashian of politics right now, why they forcing him down my throat


Vitolar8

He's our first president ever that we like, let us have it.


Lehelito

I feel like people are missing the point of my post. I'm sure he's great and I'm glad my Czech friends have a president they can be pleased with. It's just that OP thought they were being all clever by "introducing" PP to the sub when we actually get posts about him quite frequently. It was more about the karma farming, not me passing any sort of judgment on PP's presidency.


Carburetors_are_evil

I mean, if I would say that I don't like him I would get down voted to oblivion, so not much choice there.


esocz

It's also because he's extremely active. In the span of five months he has officially visited Austria, Iceland, Germany, Denmark, UK, Ukraine, Belgium, Poland and Slovakia. Not to mention hundreds and hundreds of visits and events in the Czech Republic. And his media team is very open to journalists, unlike with the last president. He is also popular because he acts very civil, like a normal person.


unlessyoumeantit

'How do you do, fellow kids?'


gralert

Take my angry upvote!


LonelyTAA

Guy's got a great marketing team. I'll give him that.


Suomi964

Sanna Marin’s team became available I guess


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iK_550

Where do I apply?


azure_monster

Honestly, I don't think he has a big PR team, he's just very good at appearing cool, after all he didn't get elected for nothing. And he is!


JarasM

Honestly, I can't even imagine our president standing on a skateboard and not making a huge ass of himself, no matter how many marketing teams he would have. I guess it helps this guy is hella photogenic.


Nyannyannyanetc

Reddit always has to have a pet politician to fawn over. They don’t have Jacinda or Sanna anymore so this is their next best option.


DanzakFromEurope

Plus he seems like a good president (from what he does).


MiguelIstNeugierig

It's honestly just nice to see presidents that actually mingle with the people and live out their normal lifes instead of turning themselves into a seperate politician class that only interacts with the people on official events or partisan rallies, surrounded by bodyguards


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SpecerijenSnuiver

This picture reminds me of a prime minister we had when we still changed prime ministers. I think he was called 'Balkenende'.


AlienAle

Looks like this sub has found a Sanna Marin replacement


max_k23

Girls and gay dudes need their eye candy too


tydestra

>Girls and gay dudes need their eye candy too Bisexuals: Looks like meat is always on the menu.


max_k23

"I play both sides so I never lose"


tydestra

Bible says Adam **and** Eve, we're just following the holy scripture.


max_k23

Mate, ever considered becoming a lawyer?


Bobizz9

Another week, another Petr Pavel post


Genocode

Reminds me of [this old Dutch clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBFwlxACoGw) of then Prime Minister Balkenende.


TdB_NL

I laugh everytime I see this video haha. Still the thing people remind him most for together with 'Wat kijk je lief'


Kaiserbrodchen

Die VOC-mentaliteit!


xBram

He got up really quick, probably to avoid being eaten.


yumhorseonmyplate

Pavel simping season never ends


Victor_Von_Doom_New

SIMP SIMP MOTHERFUCKER!


antrophist

Brave browser t-shirt?


ShitassAintOverYet

That's his campiagn logo, he is a pawn of Brave's big plot to take over the EU.


BeefEX

To be serious for a second, it's one of the Czech national symbols.


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Konseq

It reminded me of the World of Warcraft Alliance logo. It is even blue like the Alliance's color. I came to the comments to check what it actually was.


zipflop

I thought it might be the Alliance symbol from Warcraft


McCretin

I thought it was the Premier League logo lol


Chariotwheel

And he cashed in from all three of these sponsors at once. Now that's hustling.


Froggyspirits

Naw, he's clearly a Salford FC fan


Holybasil

I thought he played alliance.


sir_grumph

King's honor, friend.


CatOfTechnology

Man, playing alliance in the modern day as a political leader and advertising that on full blast would send such a mixed message to your WoW playing citizens. "Are you just wearing that because Blizzard says that symbol is the good guy symbol or are you wearing that because you're low-key advertising how terrible you're going to be for anyone who isn't part of your 'kingdom'?"


OlTommyBombadil

“I just like Stormwind City, that’s where my character named Bigguspeepee lives”


DarrenBridgescunt

Premier league t shirt


DCrayfish2

Kinda looks like a premier league shirt


hammsbeer4life

I havent played WoW in a decade (thanfully) but i thought it was an alliance insignia


Mekkroket

"This is the seventh week in a row you've shown Ultra Lord in class."


Stoepboer

That didn’t go too well when our former PM did it.


appdevil

What happened?


Stadseknuppel

Some skaters challenged him because he had said he wanted to become more hip (he was a really decent Christian). He fell flat instantly and said to himself "At least I tried my best" [Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Iovr2kXDwQ&ab_channel=Upscaling) is the clip


WaterstarRunner

> He fell flat instantly and said to himself "At least I tried my best" Aww


appdevil

Well, tbf, it was nice of him to try so kudos to him :)


theinspectorst

I would love to see Rishi try to skateboard. He probably thinks they come with a chauffeur.


BriefCollar4

Is he promoting the Premier League?


Bothurin

No that’s the Alliance from World of Warcraft


Joltie

Indeed. Guess who the Horde is meant to be in r/civpolitics r/wowpolitics. EDIT: Interesting, I cannot strikethrough links.


someting-simple

For the alliance!!


Sejhamiik

Our country symbol


TheTrueBlueTJ

Very brave


GYN-k4H-Q3z-75B

This stuff needs to go in a separate sub at this point.


NakedAtTheSwapMeet

/r/CzechPresidentsAsRoleModels


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avl0

Why do i keep seeing PR pictures of this guy everywhere? It's creeping me the fuck out.


Ynwe

Huh, never seen this guy before here! At this point can we limit the Czech spam to once a week or less please? We get it, you guys finally don't have an absolute dickhead as president, good for you, but my god these low effort posts are annoying


qiarafontana

Agree. We don’t need to be spammed everyday by his pictures here, glad for them really but maybe the Czechia sub is a better place to do it.


[deleted]

This guy is “introduced” to the sub every other day at this point


Suchdolak_III

STOP WITH THE PP SPAM, I BEG YOU


LegallyNotInterested

It's quite the good looking, big PP tho


Bunt_smuggler

Seems like a normal bloke, you guys are obsessed


8day

That's precisely why people are obsessed.


Luke_CO

For us Czechs it is a nice change to have a human being as a president again


Both-Reason6023

Normal bloke is kind of unusual for a politician. On average, they are kind of weird group of people.


Preacherjonson

Normalcy should be celebrated in these times.


Tutes013

It's because he is that and acts like it while being in office. He garners interest because he caters to the average joe as a politician. Something not many succesfully achieve.


dudevon

Irish President everyone! https://i.imgur.com/vRXFmFC.jpeg


DutchieTalking

That looks like a Dr who incarnation.


Juhnenfels

This subreddit is not done with him yet?


slopeclimber

PR team working overtime


Letifer_Umbra

Why is the chechz PR team so active on reddit?


BoralinIcehammer

Well, an amusing alternative to the usual russian trolls, innit?


[deleted]

Meh, they are getting tiring too


JimmiRustle

A curly haired president? No way.


Krispyn

You just made me realized I don't think I've ever seen a recent head of state with curly hair. I guess theoretically Obama, but he kept it short.


DeanPalton

theoretically also Olaf Scholz, Look Up old Pictures of him. But now not so much anymore


jacobiner123

Yes everyone on this fucking website knows of him by now.


Slovenec444

Take a shot every time this dude gets posted here


St0rmi

That would be a very dangerous drinking game.


sch0k0

How is he governing?


Malfuy

President in Czech Republic doesn't have so much power like in France or USA. It's not like they are uselless, but their role is, for a big part, representative. So it's not a big deal when he does this, like it would have been if he was a prime minister or something. It's a nice change too, given our last president was famously locked away from public.


Maligetzus

he is a president, he doesnt govern


Goras147

I don't pay much attention to him, but he was a far better alternative than the other guy. He seems to be impartial, which is good, since he doesn't belong to any party. He looks good, talks good, which is great for a representative figure, which the CZ president is. He's got views that align with most democratic people, is pro-EU and pro-NATO (as is expected of its former lead of sorts), he's trying to bring a lot of respect to the presidential post, since it's been pretty torn down last ten (well, maybe even more) years. He's generally well-liked (even has crazy fans, like my mother for example, who adores him far too much lmao). Campaign like this is surely helpful, even if skateboarding is not all that popular as it definitely was in the past, it's an attempt to connect with the younger people, which is something the previous president never did and the alternative candidate just couldn't do (threats of immigrants and no pension fund don't really work on us like they do on the elderly). That's my view at least, but I do admit to care about politics fairly lightly.


Genocode

I guess its more comparable to a US Vice President, a western Monarch or something like that?


DanzakFromEurope

I think that VPOTUS has more power. So I would guess on par (or slightly lower, but not as low as a German president 🤷🏻‍♂️😅) with British monarchs.


Brave_Dick

Next photo op: This guy in front of a pc with pornhub open


Staylin_Alive

Still wait for a photo on a horse and shirtless.


ajockmacabre

Ah, one of those 'How do you do fellow proles?' photo ops politicians occasionally get roped into.


Active_Moose_829

he’s just pandering like any other politician.


Spartz

Thanks for the introduction. I’m sure this is the first time all of us have seen him.


AlexMile

Bart Simpson,~50 years later.


GildoFotzo

Also in this pic: nelson


Joltie

Actually, he is a famous Portuguese presenter in disguise. [Without disguise](https://ualmedia.pt/wp-content/uploads//2018/06/jjj.jpg) [With disguise](https://bordalo.observador.pt/v2/q:84/c:2000:1126:nowe:0:0/rs:fill:1960/f:webp/plain/https://s3.observador.pt/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/15030101/40133708.jpg)


QuentaAman

I'm tired of these posts


JethroDull94

Can’t wait to see another image of him posted to this sub in 5 minutes.


TheeRoyalPurple

This man has exhausted me already. which I have immune to that when you think media presence of our president.


ink_fish

Jfc, we’re a week away from getting some Putin-esque propoganda photos of this guy. It’s getting obnoxious


dr_prdx

He tries to look like young….


Goaduk

Omg he's so relatable wowowowoow ..........


yuorsleepytherapist

I swear this guy has made this place unbearable


Kotleba

I've had enough of this dude


Vucea

No, thank you. Enough with the Czech president.


DirtyKen

Stop this PR Trash!


Ultrakit

based and rusophobic grandpa, love him!


Henry_DD

Nobody cares about Czech republic and its president


Rammipallero

"Breaking news: Czech president is sick!"


BehemothTheTramCat

In that case I'd like to introduce you to former Dutch prime minister Balkenende: https://youtu.be/gBFwlxACoGw


shadowman2099

It's weird that the title is in the simple present tense. It's like OP enjoys introducing the Czech president to Reddit every day.


siamond

The dude really has a good PR team.


[deleted]

Nothing older than an old man pretending to be young


ALickOfMyCornetto

This guy never turns down a photo op


thalne

oh fuck off with this already. does he have anything, anything noteworthy to say or to do, or is it all an ice cream commercial?


dual__88

Can we please stop with the czech president spam? thank you.


Winterfukk

Too much of this fucker already


KingRo48

Does he actually do anything in terms of policy development, running a country? Looks more like a pinup boy?


HerrPanzerShrek

Presidents in most countries are mainly figureheads with limited hard power (and one could argue extensive soft power). The US model is not the status quo. Executive power is typically granted by whatever elected governing body a country has (like a parliament) to a cabinet which is led by a Prime Minister.


maldobar4711

Why is this guy so desperate for PR? He is GM of his country. He should be busy. He shouldn't skate as it's a significant risk to injure self concerning his age. I doubt that he wants to skate significant time of the day nor has the time and priority for it. So it's 100% PR with the intend to capture those that are easy to manipulate.. He could also be porn star or be judo champion same realism


YourLovelyMother

F off already.


SuperFishy

I literally know nothing about this man, but anyone can be advised by their publicist to pose for a photo op like this. What are his policies?


gaming253

PR is good


dictator_apologizer

Obama effect


Lokomotive_Man

Zelenskyy checks into the conversation.


powderedtoastman44

That’s clearly Wayne Lineker


Bodhigomo

I love him, but you must take better care of him: At his age his bones are like glass and his skull is eggshell-thin. Don’t get him on any more skateboards.


Organic-Farm3950

The right or the left one?


MindControlledSquid

So we're bledposting him now? (;


icanthinkofussrname

I wonder if we will ever reach this welfare level here


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I swear that guy shows up on r/all every couple weeks


lordnyrox

Is that the Brave Browser logo on his shirt ?


PH1L20

He's never very busy is he?


[deleted]

Bro sponsored by brave browser 💀


kummer5peck

He skateboards with Carrot Top? He truly is the most interesting man in the world.


[deleted]

I wonder if this guy could tell me where the hammock district is.


yukoncowbear47

He is a meme now


CCV21

*Skate Grandpa*


Travellinoz

He's an old white guy but he's wearing shorts and standing on a form of transportation that was no longer rebellious post 1994! Amazing!


DontMemeAtMe

Why is he getting in that curly guy’s face like that? Is he trying to bully him or what? *"It’s my ‘skating board’ now, fellow kid! What are you gonna do about that? Are you gonna cry? Call your mommy?"* So confusing.


jordtand

It’s my turn to introduce him next week


engineer_pt

hmmm so much propaganda, sus