Czech PM Picks New Minister in Bid to End Rift with President

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Motorists will present a new candidate for Minister of the Environment. This was announced on Sunday evening by the current candidate Filip Turek, whom President Petr Pavel refused to appoint to the ministry due to his scandals. Turek did not say who the new minister would be.

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Deputy nominee Igor Červený has become the Motorists' new choice for the post of Minister of the Environment in the Czech Republic. The move follows changes in the party's stance and tensions between the government and the president.

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Motorists will present a new candidate for Minister of the Environment on Monday, their current candidate for the position of Minister Filip Turek announced on Instagram. According to Turek, the new minister should work alongside him at the Ministry of the Environment (MoE). Turek is now the government's plenipotentiary for...

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Motorists are backing down from their stance on not appointing Filip Turk as Minister of the Environment. They have so far insisted that Turk remains the only candidate for this government position, with party leader Petr Macinka even hinting that he himself could head two ministries for two years. But Turk announced that the party would present another candidate.

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Motorists will present another candidate for Minister of the Environment, announced their current candidate Filip Turek (for Motorists). At the same time, he said in a video on Instagram that he would work alongside this nominee in the ministry and that the person in question "will do in the ministry what he sees before my eyes." Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO) said that he was informed about the new candidate. The name is to be known on Monda…