According to Deník N, the president’s decision sent a clear message to the nation:
“A minister in a democratic country should not be a person who wants to burn his opponents in ovens, who raises his right arm in a salute, who calls himself a leader, who describes the shooting of innocent people as a purge, and who, on top of all that, talks openly about who he would he like to arrest or hang from lampposts. … When the prime minister, who is responsible for proposing ministers, refused to oppose Turek, the president did it for him.”