Overview
- Organizers reported 200,000–250,000 people gathering on Prague’s Letná plain.
- Speakers accused Babiš’s coalition of authoritarian drift and an eastward tilt, likening the register plan to Russian-style measures.
- The draft would require individuals, schools and civic groups receiving money from abroad to enter a special register, which Babiš frames as a transparency effort to curb foreign interference.
- Demonstrators also objected to recent defense spending cuts and proposed changes to public-service media financing.
- Babiš leads a right-leaning coalition with Motorists and the far-right SPD, and a recent majority vote kept his parliamentary immunity intact as alleged subsidy-fraud risks linger.