Babiš assumes that new budget will have to be drafted by his government

The chairman of the ANO movement and likely new prime minister, Andrej Babiš, expects that his government will probably have to prepare next year’s budget. He said this on Wednesday at a press conference before the start of the session at which MPs will debate the budget in its first reading. According to Babiš, developments have shown that the proposal prepared by Petr Fiala’s (ODS) cabinet cannot be fixed. ANO’s shadow finance minister, Alena Schillerová, also confirmed that the ANO–SPD–Motorists majority in the Chamber of Deputies will return the proposal to the government for revision.