Czech government survives no-confidence motion in lower house

The Czech coalition government survived a vote of no-confidence on Wednesday evening, following a 31-hour marathon debate in the lower house. The result was anticipated since the ruling coalition has a comfortable 108-seat majority in the Chamber of Deputies. A minimum of 101 votes was needed for the cabinet to fall, but the motion only received 85 votes from the opposition ANO party and Okamura’s Freedom and Direct Democracy Party.

This was the opposition’s third attempt to bring down the ruling five-party coalition led by Prime Minister Petr Fiala.