Babiš: government is concealing corruption within its ranks

The parties making up the government coalition are concealing corruption and clientelism within their ranks and are trying to let all the scandals connected with them pass by in silence, says the leader of the opposition ANO party, Andrej Babiš. He accuses the government of being afraid of the public's reaction and feeling insecure about their hold on power. Mr. Babiš made the comments during his opening speech at a special parliamentary session on Thursday initiated by his party.

In response, prime minister Petr Fiala denied the allegations of corruption and said the real reason the ANO party leader had called the meeting was that he was angry at how the lower house had taken a stand against a leaked e-mail he had written, in which he had asked colleagues to dig up dirt on Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský.