Industry and Trade Minister Martin Kuba was elected as the new first
vice-chairman of the Civic Democratic, replacing lower house speaker
Miroslava Němcová. 363 delegates at the party conference voted for the
new vice-chairman on Sunday. In a brief interview with the press after his
victory, Mr Kuba said that he believes that the government may find a way
to find a compromise with the rebel Civic Democratic MPs, but gave to
further details.
Later on Sunday the conference delegates voted in four new vice-chair
people: former Justice Minister Jiří Pospíšil, current Justice Minister
Pavel Blažek, Environment Minister Tomáš Chalupa, and Ms Němcová, who
received the least number of votes of the four.