Zeman appoints Fiala as prime minister, he had one reservation about the ministers – SME.sk

PRAGUE. Czech president Milos Zeman appoints Petr Fiala as Prime Minister on 26 November at the Lány chateau. According to the Czech media, the chairman of the ODS announced this after a meeting with the head of state at the Central Military Hospital in Prague on Wednesday.

Zeman should then meet with the proposed candidates for ten days. Therefore, Fiala expects that the Czech Republic could have a new government in about three weeks.

Fiala does not want Zeman to back down

The probable future prime minister also said that he had informed the president of the names of the candidates for minister. He had only one reservation on the list submitted.

“The President has given me reservations about one thing menubut we have agreed not to announce it now because all candidates are still in talks with the president, “Fiala quoted the portal as saying. Novinky.cz.

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At the same time, Fiala refused to comply with the president’s reservation. “I’m not willing to speculate on substitutes, all those names are correct, the list is good,” he said.

It is unofficially speculated that Zeman could be hindered by the adept Foreign Minister Ján Lipavský (Pirates), writes Novinky.

The new cabinet will have 18 ministers

The first deputy prime minister was to be the head of the STAN movement, Vít Rakušan, who is also to lead the Ministry of the Interior. Other Deputy Prime Ministers will be Marian Jurečka (KDU-ČSL), Vlastimil Válek (TOP09) and Ivan Bartoš (Pirates).

Fiala will be the prime minister of a new government consisting of ODS, TOP09, KDU-ČSL, STAN and Pirátov, which will replace the ending minority cabinet Andrej Babiš (YES). Babiš Zemana visited ÚVN on Monday.

The emerging cabinet will have 18 ministers, the outgoing government has only 15. The ODS will have a prime minister’s seat and five ministries, the mayors four ministries, the pirates and the People’s Party three and TOP 09 will receive two ministries.