ANO party leadership insists on Babiš retaining post of finance minister

The ANO party of Andrej Babiš, who is at the centre of the ongoing government crisis, has said it will insist on Babiš remaining in the post of finance minister. The second strongest party in government said it had no ambition to fill the post of prime minister and was ready to accept either Foreign Minister Zaorálek as the new head of government or Pavel Bělobrádek, the head of the Christian Democratic Party. ANO said talks about the old-new new coalition government could only begin after Prime Minister Sobotka handed in his resignation.