Andrej Babiš to update ANO leadership on gov’t negotiations

ANO leader Andrej Babiš will update party bosses on the state of negotiations over forming a coalition government with the Social Democrats with support from the communists on Tuesday evening. Tuesday’s meeting should also plot the way forward in negotiations to try and form a stable government. ANO party deputy chairman Richard Brabec refused to comment Monday on the Social Democrats’ demand that the anti-EU and anti-immigrant Freedom and Direct Democracy Party of Tomio Okamura lose to parliamentary posts in the lower house.

The leadership of the Social Democrats called at the weekend for a nationwide ban on any cooperation with Okamura’s party.

ANO leader Andrej Babiš is currently prime minister of a government which has failed to win a confidence vote following elections six months ago in October.

Author: Chris Johnstone