Czech Republic: protesters demand prime minister's resignation
by Robert Tait in Prague from on (#4HS4Z)
About 250,000 people gathered in Prague to direct anger at Andrej BabiA, who has been labelled a threat to democracy
An estimated 250,000 people have demanded the resignation of the Czech Republic's prime minister in the country's biggest display of dissent since the 1989 velvet revolution that ended communism in the former Czechoslovakia.
In a setting loaded with historical symbolism, demonstrators from across the country crowded into Prague's Letna park - site of a pivotal protest 30 years ago credited with forcing the communist regime from power - to voice anger over Andrej BabiA, a billionaire leader who campaigned on an anti-corruption platform but has himself become a symbol of perceived malfeasance.
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