US EditionCzechia: Will conflict of interest stop Babis becoming PM?
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ODS, TOP 09, the People's Party and the STAN movement have decided to request an extraordinary meeting due to a possible conflict of interest of the head of the ANO movement, Andrej Babiš, who owns the Agrofert holding and is also running for the post of prime minister in the next government. The party representatives announced this on Friday. The president had previously called on Babiš to publicly announce how he would resolve the conflict of …
Czechia: Will conflict of interest stop Babis becoming PM?
Six weeks after parliamentary elections in Czechia, it is not clear when — or indeed if — election winner Andrej Babis will be named prime minister. The would-be PM met the president on Wednesday to discuss the matter.
President Petr Pavel has also long demanded that Babiš publicly announce the way in which he will resolve his conflict of interest to the entire nation. The chairman of the ANO movement keeps repeating that he has a solution and that it will be in line with what the Czech courts and the European Commission claim, but he refuses to say anything specific about it. "He didn't reveal anything to the president in this regard either. He told him the s…
Prague - The People's Party, with the support of the ODS, the Mayors and Independents (STAN) and TOP 09, want to convene an extraordinary meeting of the Chamber of Deputies to discuss the conflict of interest of ANO chairman Andrej Babiš. The chairman of the KDU-ČSL parliamentary group Tom Philipp told journalists today. According to them, the possible future prime minister Babiš will have the opportunity to publicly explain at this meeting how …
ANO Movement Chairman Andrej Babiš will announce how he will resolve his conflict of interest just before President Petr Pavel appoints him to the position of Prime Minister. If the president so wishes, he will announce it publicly. Babiš told reporters on Thursday evening after a meeting of the coalition council of the emerging government of ANO, SPD and...
Even after the evening meeting of the coalition council, ANO leader and likely next prime minister Andrej Babiš did not say how he would resolve his conflict of interest. The parties also agreed not to heed the president's request and not to amend the program statement.
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