Agreement target comes amid TOP 09 doubts about deal

An agreement on who should govern the Czech capital for the next four years should be sealed within a week, the chairman of the Prague regional branch of the Civic Democratic Party told Czech Radio on Thursday. Boris Št’astný made the prediction ahead of a fresh round of negotiations between his party and TOP 09, the winner of local elections in the capital last month. Some TOP 09 party leaders on Wednesday gave just a five percent chance of talks concluding with an agreement between the two right of centre parties. A deal between the Civic Democrats and Social Democrats was far more likely, they said. TOP 09 got 30 percent of the vote but fell short of a majority in city hall last month leaving a coalition between any of the biggest three parties a possibility.