Did Czech President Petr Pavel directly address citizens on the Seznam Zpravy news website in a plea to defend their country? No, that's not true: Petr Pavel did not make any such direct appeal via Seznam Zpravy.
The claim appeared in a video (archived here) published on TikTok on March 20, 2025. The person speaking in the video says in Czech, translated by Lead Stories staff:
The President of the Republic made a plea in an article on pro-government Seznam Zpravy to defend our country. However, the results of the survey are devastating. 82 percent from 60,000 respondents stated they do not want to fight for this country and corrupted politicians and Petr Fiala´s government.
This is what the post looked like on TikTok at the time of writing:
(Source: TikTok screenshot taken on Tue Apr 1 07:37:01 2025 UTC)
The person speaking in the TikTok video is Radovan Vich (archived here), a member of the Czech Parliament with the opposition Freedom and Direct Democracy party. In the above TikTok video, he is referring to an article published on Seznam Zpravy (see screenshot below) on March 18, 2025, that reported on the annual security conference "Our Security Cannot be Taken for Granted" (archived here) held in Prague that day.
(Source: Seznam Zpravy screenshot taken on Wed Apr 2 07:37:01 2025 UTC)
The Czech president, Petr Pavel, was among the speakers. Vich´s claim that Petr Pavel appealed to citizens via Seznam Zpravy is not correct, as the article only cites Petr Pavel as one of the participants at the event, along with Prime Minister Petr Fiala or national security advisor Tomas Pojar. Moreover, Petr Pavel did not make any official plea to citizens there; he only spoke to the conference audience in general terms.
The president´s office published a recording of Petr Pavel´s speech at the event on its official page on March 18, 2025, which can be seen here (archived here). The speech was approximately 7 minutes long, and at the 5:29:00 mark of the video, Pavel said, "I believe that if the worst comes to pass, we will be willing to take up arms and defend the country." The speech covered various topics in a wider context, and he did not address the public with any official nationwide plea.
In the TikTok video, Vich also refers to a survey in which 82 percent out of 60,000 respondents rejected the president´s alleged plea, adding that they would not get a weapon and would not go to defend the country. Vich's words give the impression that this was an official opinion poll on Petr Pavel's plea.
Vich was probably referring to another article (archived here) that also reported on the security conference, just like Seznam Zpravy, published on a different Czech news website, Novinky.cz, on March 18, 2025.
The Novinky article summarized what speakers said at the event, and below the article, a one-question poll (see screenshot below) was shown. The question in Czech, translated by Lead Stories staff, read: "Would you defend your country with a weapon in hand in the event of war?". The two answers proposed were "Yes" and "No." Results showed that 82,5 percent of 66,979 readers chose No. However, this was not an official opinion poll and was not carried out according to the proper methodology used and required by polling agencies to measure public opinion. Therefore, its value is quite limited. 
(Source: Novinky.cz screenshot taken on Tue Apr 1 07:55:01 2025 UTC)
