Czech government to face no-confidence vote over dispute with president

The new Czech coalition government of Prime Minister Andrej Babiš faced a no-confidence vote on Tuesday over the handling of a dispute with President Petr Pavel, Euronews writes.

The vote was requested by opposition parties backing Pavel, who accused Czech Deputy Prime Minister Petr Macinka of blackmailing him after he refused to appoint a minister from the right-wing and eurosceptic Motorists for Themselves party. Macinka is the leader of that party.

Tens of thousands of Czechs rallied on Sunday in the capital Prague and elsewhere in support of the president.

The publication notes that Babiš’s government has a majority to survive the vote in the lower house of parliament.