Czech extremists from Tomi Okamura's Freedom Direct Democracy (SPD) party called on the police to expel several journalists from their election headquarters, where they are waiting for the results of the just-ended parliamentary elections, as they abruptly revoked their credentials last night, Czech Television reported. "We have no intention of cooperating with the media and journalists who purposely only smear, compromise and manipulate the facts of the SPD movement," the SPD informed the journalists. The Czech extreme right did not like how the journalists of the newspaper Hospodaržska novini and the portal Aktualne.cz reported during the elections. They didn't just revoke the accreditations of journalists, they didn't even let a cameraman with valid accreditation into the headquarters today. The police were called by the security of the headquarters to expel the journalist of the public Czech TV service ČT from the newsroom of reporters engaged in investigative journalism, while the reporter of the ČT election studio was allowed into the headquarters without any problems. Some journalists from Internet news portals were not allowed into the headquarters either, and the security did not want to explain to them why their accreditations were revoked. Czech radical nationalists have a chance to win a double-digit percentage of the vote in the elections for the 200 members of the lower house of the Czech parliament. Their success is due to their harsh rhetoric towards Muslim refugees in the Czech Republic and the request to call a referendum on the Czech Republic's exit from the EU (Čegzit). Before the elections, they were publicly supported by similar far-right parties in Europe, such as the French National Front.
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