{"id":4614,"date":"2018-05-01T00:00:19","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T23:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praguebusinessjournal.com\/?p=4614"},"modified":"2020-02-04T19:48:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T18:48:15","slug":"babis-to-resume-government-talks-with-social-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praguebusinessjournal.com\/babis-to-resume-government-talks-with-social-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Babis To Resume Government Talks With Social Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Prague, May 1 (CTK) &#8211; The national committee of Prime Minister Andrej Babis&#8217;s ANO backed further talks about a government with Czech Social Democrats (CSSD) today, ANO deputy chairman Jaroslav Faltynek has told the Nova commercial television station.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The coalition pact may be finished by the end of the week, Faltynek said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Faltynek said it should be ironed out by ANO deputy chairman Richard Brabec and Social Democrat deputy chairman Jiri Zimola by Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;By the end of the week, we should iron out the coalition agreement in which we will take into account the Social Democrats&#8217; demands,&#8221; he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Brabec and Zimola are also supposed to agree on the government manifesto by Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;The Social Democrats would like to have a final version by May 11,&#8221; Brabec said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The coalition pact will have about three pages, but the government manifesto about 50 pages, Brabec said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On Wednesday, there will be a meeting of the two parties&#8217; deputy chairpersons and on Friday that of Babis and Social Democrat leader Jan Hamacek.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Faltynek said it was a success that the Social Democrats had been convinced that they should not raise taxes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The money on the planned projects such as rises in pensions and teachers&#8217; salaries is to be gained by a better collection of taxes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Faltynek said the ANO deputy group was to express its position on the outcome of the talks &#8220;because just the deputies will vote on the confidence in the government.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;By that time, we need to have cleared up all the things relating to the coalition pact,&#8221; Faltynek said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The committee will also be informed on the conditions presented by the Communists who are supposed to tolerate the government of ANO and the CSSD.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Faltynek confirmed that the Social Democrats might become the ministers of interior, agriculture, labour and social affairs, culture and foreign affairs, which they preferred to the Defence Ministry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">However, the Social Democrats also demand that Babis resigned if he were convicted. Babis is now facing criminal charges over an EU subsidy fraud.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Social Democrats also want the rest of the government to resign if the Social Democrats ministers stepped down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Social Democrats insist on representatives of the anti-EU Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) being dismissed from senior posts in the Chamber of Deputies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">So far, ANO has dismissed the demands.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prague, May 1 (CTK) &#8211; The national committee of Prime Minister Andrej Babis&#8217;s ANO backed further talks about a government with Czech Social Democrats (CSSD) today, ANO deputy chairman Jaroslav Faltynek has told the Nova commercial television station. &nbsp; The coalition pact may be finished by the end of the week, Faltynek said. &nbsp; Faltynek &#8230; <a title=\"Babis To Resume Government Talks With Social Democrats\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/praguebusinessjournal.com\/babis-to-resume-government-talks-with-social-democrats\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Babis To Resume Government Talks With Social Democrats\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[15,17,204,96,242,58,6,199],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Babis To Resume Government Talks With Social Democrats - Prague Business Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/praguebusinessjournal.com\/babis-to-resume-government-talks-with-social-democrats\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Babis To Resume Government Talks With Social Democrats - Prague Business Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Prague, May 1 (CTK) &#8211; The national committee of Prime Minister Andrej Babis&#8217;s ANO backed further talks about a government with Czech Social Democrats (CSSD) today, ANO deputy chairman Jaroslav Faltynek has told the Nova commercial television station. &nbsp; The coalition pact may be finished by the end of the week, Faltynek said. &nbsp; Faltynek ... 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