The centre-left Social Democrats of outgoing Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka, who won just 7.3% of the vote, said they may enter talks with ANO, their current coalition partner, but only if Babis personally stays out of the cabinet.
“Democratic forces got trounced but they will not regain strength by co-operation with Babis. “I can’t legitimise him and create the appearance of normality,” said Jan Farsky, election leader for STAN. Two small centre-right parties, STAN and TOP09, also said they would not work with Babis. “I have already ruled out talks with ANO on taking part in a government or supporting a government,” party chief Petr Fiala said on news website. The centre-right Civic Democrats, who came second in the election with 25 seats, said they would remain in opposition. He moved his chemicals, food and media firms to a trust earlier this year when he held the job of finance minister, to meet conflict of interest legislation. Police allege Babis hid ownership of one of his firms a decade ago to receive a €2mn euro EU subsidy that was meant for small businesses. Opponents see Babis, worth an estimated $4bn, as a danger to democracy because of his leadership style and business and media power that they fear could pose conflicts of interest. “My aim is that when I appoint the prime minister, and that will be Andrej Babis, that there is certainty or at least high probability that this prime minister will be successful in a parliamentary vote of confidence,” Zeman said in a live interview on news website ANO will control 78 seats in the 200-seat lower house so still needs partners from the other eight factions to form a majority, but Babis’s stance as an anti-establishment force has made it difficult to forge alliances.
Zeman said that the charges were not an obstacle for Babis – the second richest Czech who has been compared to other tycoons-turned-political leaders Donald Trump and Silvio Berlusconi – to become prime minister. They will get from the group a certificate for having supported a more transparent Czech Republic, which they will be able to use in the election campaign.Czech President Milos Zeman said yesterday that he would name Andrej Babis prime minister, but the tycoon leader of the anti-establishment ANO party may struggle to find coalition partners despite his emphatic election win.ĪNO won 29.6% of the vote at the weekend’s polls, nearly three times as much as its closest rival, but many parties expressed reluctance or rejected outright any coalition with it while Babis fights off fraud charges. Over one half of deputies supported the legislation at least partly, Pavel Franc, one of the authors of the project, said. The Reconstruction of the State compiled its rating by means of 176 votes of laws. The Reconstruction of the State will highlight both the advocates and “foes” of anti-corruption legislation in the form of flyers, billboards and newspaper articles in the forthcoming election campaign. On the other hand, the adoption of anti-corruption legislation was mostly hampered by Chamber of Deputies members Vojtech Filip, Jan Klan and Vaclav Snopek (all Communists, KSCM), Jan Zahradnik (Civic Democratic Party, ODS) and Milan Urban (CSSD) who received the worst rating. Out of senators, the prizes went to Libor Michalek (Pirates, Jitka Seitlova (KDU-CSL) and Jaroslav Vetrovsky (ANO). The main prizes went to the Chamber of Deputies deputy chairmen Radek Vondracek (ANO) and Petr Gazdik (Mayors and Independents, STAN), chairman of Christian Democrat (KDU-CSL) deputy group Jiri Mihola, Jan Farsky (STAN) and Jan Sedlacek (ANO).Īwards in the form of comics heroes were also given to the Chamber of Deputies members Jeronym Tejc (Social Democrats, CSSD), Vit Kankovsky (KDU-CSL) and Gabriela Peckova (TOP 09). These included the laws on the register of agreements, on the financing of parties and on the register of politicians’ property. Prague, Sept 21 (CTK) – The group Reconstruction of the State awarded eight members of the Czech Chamber of Deputies and three members of the Senate for most actively promoting nine anti-corruption laws on Thursday.
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