“I believe we will see the appointment of the entire government soon. I appreciate that even in this difficult situation, when the president has covid and is in isolation, a way is being sought for his talks with individual candidates for ministers. Then I will meet with the President once again, and we will somehow close the matter, and I assume that the whole government could be appointed in mid-December. That is realistic, “he said in Lány after his appointment as Prime Minister Fiala.
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Zeman should start meeting with ministerial candidates in alphabetical order from Monday, and the meeting should end on December 13. According to Fiala, President Zeman’s reservations about one nominee still persist.
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I believe that it is in the interest of this country that key constitutional actors should not be in conflict. We are in a situation where we cannot afford it.
Petr Fiala (ODS), new prime minister
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According to media reports, Jan Lipavský (Pirates) is the thorn in the side of the president, who should sit at the head of the foreign ministry in the new cabinet.
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However, according to its Sunday words, Fiala does not plan to change the nominees. He hopes the president will change his mind and the government will be appointed as a whole in mid-December. “I believe that it is in the interest of this country that key constitutional actors do not contradict each other. We are in a situation where we cannot afford it, “said Fiala, adding that a difficult period and a number of challenges await the new cabinet.
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“Roads that can be driven”
According to him, the new cabinet will have to “do something about the poor management of the state” right at the beginning, but also fix the budget for next year, which again counts on a huge deficit of tens of billions of crowns. It is said that the need will also address rising energy prices and inflation.
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“I want it to be a government of change for the future. So the government, which prepares the necessary changes, implements the pension reform, will take steps that correspond to the 21st century. In order to have roads that can be driven here, “Fiala listed some of the priorities of his newly emerging government.
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Until the new government is appointed, the country’s leading cabinet, Andrej Babiš (YES), is now in resignation.
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