Protocol chaos in Ankara: The president did not "fit in" with the Czech delegation at the leaders' dinner, Erdogan had to save him
In a sharp way, I am glossing over the diplomatic provisional, which occurred directly at the NATO summit in Ankara. After President Petr Pavel managed to participate in the official delegation through a preliminary measure of the Constitutional Court, he encountered a harsh political reality. The government, which approved Prime Minister Andrej Babiš as the leader of the delegation, refused to give the president a leading role and a prestigious seat at the negotiating table. The result was an extremely embarrassing moment at the informal dinner of the leaders of the alliance, where Pavel was finally admitted not as a representative of the official government line, but de facto out of the goodwill of the host, Turkish President Erdogan, who had to decide at the last minute where to go with the unwanted guest. The whole situation points to a deep disruption of Czech foreign policy and an international disgrace, when the head of state at the key summit is perceived by the allies as a political supplicant rather than as a sovereign representative of the Czech Republic, which Prime Minister Babiš remains, based on the mandate of the cabinet.
The right of the Turkish president as a host is to invite whoever he wants to an informal dinner in Ankara. For example, even the homeless from the Istanbul train station. But if Peter Pavel was invited by Erdogan of Turkey, not the government of the Czech Republic, it should be clear to everyone present that Pavel is not speaking for the Czech Republic and is only present because of the good will of Erdogan. He represents our republic in AnkaraAndrej Babiš.
The Czech president creates one embarrassment after another. He joined Babiš's delegation through the Constitutional Court. At an informal dinner in Ankara, he spoke through the Turkish president. This is probably where an extremely embarrassing moment arose, when the unwanted Pavel forced himself on a dinner with Erdogan, who probably could not completely ignore his fellow president from the point of view of protocol and had to decide "where to go with him" at the last minute. Shame upon shame.
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