{"id":7373,"date":"2019-06-27T13:00:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praguebusinessjournal.com\/?p=7373"},"modified":"2019-06-27T15:18:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T14:18:21","slug":"babis-survives-no-confidence-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praguebusinessjournal.com\/babis-survives-no-confidence-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Babis Survives No-Confidence Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Czech leader Andrej Babi\u0161 clung onto his prime ministership Thursday after a no-confidence motion called by the opposition failed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The opposition called the vote after a preliminary European Commission audit leaked to local media found that\u00a0Babi\u0161, one\u00a0of\u00a0the richest men in the Czech Republic, had breached\u00a0conflict-of-interest rules in connection with subsidies paid to his Agrofert holding company.\u00a0And an estimated 250,000 Czechs\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/czech-republic-czechs-prague-stage-biggest-protest-since-communism-against-prime-minister-andrej-babis\/\">took to the streets<\/a> on Sunday to protest his leadership after\u00a0Czech police recommended\u00a0Babi\u0161 be charged with subsidy fraud involving the \u20ac2 million in EU funds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Czechs also object to Babi\u0161&#8217; recent appointment of Marie Bene\u0161ova, a close ally, as justice minister, with protesters presuming she will not pursue criminal charges against the prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Babi\u0161 denied any wrongdoing. &#8220;I take this initiative as an effort to destabilize our country,&#8221; he told lawmakers in advance of the no-confidence vote,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-czech-politics\/czech-government-survives-no-confidence-vote-idUSKCN1TS0EH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reuters reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Babi\u0161 survived the motion after retaining the votes of his coalition partner, the Social Democrats, as well as Communist lawmakers who back the minority government.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/czech-pm-babis-survives-no-confidence-motion\/\">Politico<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Czech leader Andrej Babi\u0161 clung onto his prime ministership Thursday after a no-confidence motion called by the opposition failed. &nbsp; The opposition called the vote after a preliminary European Commission audit leaked to local media found that\u00a0Babi\u0161, one\u00a0of\u00a0the richest men in the Czech Republic, had breached\u00a0conflict-of-interest rules in connection with subsidies paid to his Agrofert &#8230; <a title=\"Babis Survives No-Confidence Vote\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/praguebusinessjournal.com\/babis-survives-no-confidence-vote\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Babis Survives No-Confidence Vote\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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],"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 Survives No-Confidence Vote - 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-survives-no-confidence-vote\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Babis Survives No-Confidence Vote - Prague Business Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Czech leader Andrej Babi\u0161 clung onto his prime ministership Thursday after a no-confidence motion called by the opposition failed. &nbsp; The opposition called the vote after a preliminary European Commission audit leaked to local media found that\u00a0Babi\u0161, one\u00a0of\u00a0the richest men in the Czech Republic, had breached\u00a0conflict-of-interest rules in connection with subsidies paid to his Agrofert ... 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