Will the government of Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala soon face a vote of no confidence? The background is a corruption scandal involving the Prague public transport company.
The Czech opposition politician and ex-Prime Minister Andrej Babis is threatening a motion of no confidence in the government in the middle of the country’s EU Council Presidency.
In a published open letter, he demanded the dismissal of Interior Minister Vit Rakusan as an ultimatum. He accused him of being “completely incompetent” and “a person with proven connections to mafia structures”.
The background is a corruption scandal involving the Prague public transport company, in which Rakusan’s party colleagues are said to be involved. The liberal-conservative Prime Minister Petr Fiala rejected the request and, according to the CTK agency, expressed his full confidence in the minister. He accused Babis, who has presidential ambitions, of trying to distract from his own affairs.
The votes of 101 of the 200 deputies are required to overthrow the government. The opposition has only 92 seats. A no-confidence vote would come at the worst possible time for the government in Prague: the Czech Republic will hold the rotating EU Council Presidency until the end of the year. Numerous informal ministerial and summit meetings are planned, the preparation of which takes a lot of time.
Memories of the previous Czech EU Council Presidency in 2009 are also being awakened in political Prague. In the course of this, the then conservative Mirek Topolanek government was overthrown by a vote of no confidence. It was replaced by a transitional cabinet.
Tweet from Babis, in Czech
Source: Stern
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