Communists help Czech premier survive no-confidence vote
Five centre-right groups accuse Andrej Babis’s cabinet of mismanaging fight against Covid-19
04 June 2021 - 09:47
The Czech Republic’s billionaire prime minister survived a motion to bring down his government after the Communist Party declined to join the rest of the opposition in a no-confidence vote just four months before elections.
The vote was triggered by five centre-right groups who accuse Andrej Babis’s cabinet of mismanaging the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic and after a EU audit found him in conflict of interest over subsidies received by his agriculture, chemical and media business empire...
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