Bc. Petr Vávra Louda

28 years oldPraha 10Piráti

Running for Piráti

Main topics

budget and finances

Unfortunately, it's becoming more and more obvious that Prague 10 is still stuck deep in the nineties. The current coalition is selling off the district's land into private hands far below value (fancy a plot by the metro at 10k per m2?), and isn't even trying to maintain the size of the current housing stock, which is already grossly insufficient. Valuations for the sale of Prague 10's property are often suspiciously low, decisions about property aren't transparent and are often presented as a done deal that the coalition pushes through, as they say, “by force”. Just look at how things turned out with the town hall – we don't have the old one, we don't have a new one either, the main thing is to get rid of everything as fast as possible and not deal with the consequences. These are things the town hall has to start dealing with systematically, and it has to stop getting rid of municipal property at any cost.

Let's bring this place to life!

I'd like to push for Prague 10 to start adapting much faster to the extreme weather swings that await us more and more often in the future. With heatwaves, which we probably all still remember, it starts with adding drinking fountains and misting sprinklers and continues through opening up more cooling spots or introducing a register of vulnerable people, following the example of Western cities. Besides that, it's also about seemingly small things that help us live better in Prague 10: repairing or replacing benches, renewing the network of bins, areas for street art following the example of Galerie Podchod.

open city hall and communication

I probably won't be the first or the last to come up with this view, but the town hall should be a partner for its citizens and should treat them that way. So I fundamentally reject the elitist approach of the current leadership. At the same time, the Prague 10 town hall should act as an intermediary between the district's residents and Prague City Hall wherever possible – for example in managing streets or greenery. The results of participation with citizens should be taken into account to a greater extent than has been the case so far, and other people's opinions shouldn't be rejected just for the fun of it. But so as not to only criticise, I have to give at least part of the current leadership credit for the intensity of their communication with the public, which I'd like to continue.

A few words about me

I completed a Bc. at FF UK in English and American Studies and German Language and Literature, with a focus on corpus linguistics and corpus data analysis. After finishing my studies, I started broadening my horizons in IT and completed a two-year programme through which I learned the basics of software development.

I currently work as a junior consultant at a company developing an app for service and installation companies; in the past I worked in prod-ops support at a British AI start-up and as a guide.

I'm running for Piráti convinced that it's one of the very few parties that really thinks about the future and doesn't operate in an “after us, the deluge” style. We hold the course of sustainable development at both national and local level, we really care about what's going on around us and we're not afraid to speak up when something gets out of control. At the same time, we're ready to listen to other democratic parties and their ideas and not put them on ice for no reason at all. I stand by the view that a big part of a politician's job should also be to listen properly, read properly, perceive properly. That's extremely underestimated these days; we just shout over each other (the Prague 10 council is a textbook example of that). So I want to bring a bit of idealistic fresh wind into politics, someone who isn't burdened by personal animosity and whose primary concern is improving the environment in which not only he but also future generations will live.

The candidate's texts have been machine-translated from Czech.