US EditionCzech Ruling Parties Team Up Against Sovereigntists Ahead of October Elections
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Prime Minister Petr Fiala (ODS) met with Interior Minister and STAN leader Vít Rakušan on Tuesday evening in Prague's Malostranská Beseda, where they were supposed to rule out post-election cooperation with the ANO movement. They also invited Pirates leader Zdeněk Hřib "for a beer", but he did not arrive.
Czech Ruling Parties Team Up Against Sovereigntists Ahead of October Elections
Leaders of the Czech Republic’s governing parties will gather in Prague on Tuesday evening, August 26th, to publicly reaffirm their refusal to enter post-election negotiations with Andrej Babiš’ ANO movement, the country’s dominant opposition force. Prime Minister Petr Fiala, head of the centre-right Spolu coalition, and Interior Minister Vít Rakušan of the centrist-liberal Mayors and Independents (STAN), will symbolically declare their determin…
Prime Minister Petr Fiala and Deputy Prime Minister Vít Rakušan confirmed over a beer yesterday that they want to govern together after the next election and that they will definitely not cooperate with the strongest movement, ANO. How long will the parties' pre-election commitment last?
"The competition between the ANO movement and the ruling parties with the Pirates has been a constant of the last decade. We are before the elections and the ruling parties are competing for partly the same voters who mostly listen to the 'Andrej Babiš card' - therefore they must essentially maintain the same approach of refusing to cooperate with him. There is nothing surprising in that." This is the brief comment of political scientist Lubomír…
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