Both strongest parties to support caretaker government

Leaders of the Czech Republic’s two strongest political parties, the Civic Democrats and the Social Democrats, told Czech TV on Sunday that their MPs would support the interim government of Jan Fischer in the upcoming vote of confidence scheduled for June 7. The chair of the Social Democrats, Jiří Paroubek, said his party’s MPs were going to support the government in spite of the fact that they don’t agree with several of the cabinet’s programme priorities. For his part, Civic Democrat leader Mirek Topolánek noted that convincing some of Civic Democrat MPs to support the government would not be easy.

The interim government of PM Jan Fischer took office earlier this month after the cabinet of Mirek Toplánek fell in a vote of no-confidence. It is set to ask the lower house of Parliament for confidence on June 7, a day after the election to the EP.