PRAGUE, Dec 21: The Czech Christian Democratic Party leadership accepted posts in a potential centre-left coalition today, clearing the way for the prospective prime minister to present a cabinet to the president by the end of the year.
The smallest party in the emerging centre-left coalition – whose vice chairman Marian Jurecka confirmed the agreement on television – was granted its demand to run the Agriculture Ministry along with two other cabinet positions, the Culture Ministry and a ministry without portfolio.
The Social Democrats, winners of an October snap election, will get eight posts, including prime minister for their leader Bohuslav Sobotka. Centrist movement ANO, which finished runner-up in the election under billionaire Andrej Babis, will fill seven ministries, including finance. Sobotka must now present his proposed government to President Milos Zeman – something the Social Democrat has said he would like to do by the end of the year. (AGENCIES)
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