Government negotiations to resume next week

Dealings between leaders of ANO, the Social Democrats and the Communists on forming a government coalition are set to continue next week.

The newly elected chief of the Social Democratic Party, Jan Hamáček, announced the news on Thursday evening after the first joint meeting of the three party leaders. He refused to give any further details about the negotiations.

The coalition talks restarted on Wednesday after being broken off when ANO refused to allow a Social Democrat minister of the interior. Both parties have previously said that the Communist Party was acceptable if the Communists agreed to the government’s pro-European course.

Author: Ruth Fraňková