Prague, Nov 27 (CTK) – The Czech Chamber of Deputies will elect its remaining fifth deputy chairperson whose seat remains vacant at its second plenary session starting on Tuesday, and it will deal with other internal affairs and also with the police request for the release of three MPs for prosecution. Petr Fiala (Civic […]
Prague, Nov 27 (CTK) – President Milos Zeman is the favourite of the Czech direct presidential election in which he will be facing eight rivals in January, but he may surprisingly fail like he surprisingly succeeded in the previous election in 2013, Erik Tabery writes in weekly Respekt out today. Zeman has very loyal […]
The scandals continue in the lower house, Czech police have presented the Chamber of Deputies with another request to strip one of their own of immunity. The latest request involves former Prague Mayor and deputy Bohuslav Svoboda. Police are pursuing criminal prosecution of the former mayor over his involvement in the city’s Opencard. Svoboda […]
Prague, Nov 24 (CTK) – A brief survey of basic dates and deadlines for the direct election of the president of the Czech Republic the first round of which will take place on January 12-13, 2018: 2017 (past deadlines) Nov 7 (66 days before election) – the deadline for presidential candidates to apply […]
Prague, Nov 24 (CTK) – The next session of the new Czech Chamber of Deputies that arose from the October parliamentary elections will open on Tuesday, November 28. The constituent session started on Monday and ended today. The MPs of the nine parties that entered parliament elected their new chairman, Radek Vondracek (ANO), and […]
Prague, Nov 26 (CTK) – MP Marketa Pekarova Adamova was elected the Czech right-wing TOP 09 party’s first deputy chairwoman, while senator Tomas Czernin, former MPs Marek Zenisek and Michal Kucera and regional politician Jan Vitula became deputy chairmen at the election congress today. Only Pekarova Adamova and Zenisek, former first deputy head, remained […]
Breclav, South Moravia, Prague, Nov 25 (CTK) – Jeronym Tejc, 40, former head of the Czech Social Democrats'(CSSD) deputy group, will leave the party after 20 years, he announced at the CSSD’s regional conference in Breclav today. He justified his departure by the CSSD leadership’s refusal to take responsibility for the debacle in the […]
Breclav, South Moravia, Nov 25 (CTK) – Outgoing Czech PM and former Social Democrats (CSSD) head Bohuslav Sobotka will not give up his deputy’s mandate for which a regional conference of the CSSD branch in South Moravia called today due to the party’s poor election results, he told CTK tonight. “I have an MP’s […]
Prague, Nov 24 (CTK) – The outgoing Czech centre-left government will hand in its resignation at its next meeting on Wednesday, November 29, PM Bohuslav Sobotka (Social Democrats, CSSD) said after the constituent session of the new lower house of parliament ended today. “Since the constituent session of the Chamber of Deputies ended, the […]