Fiala government to face no-confidence vote next Tuesday

Prime Minister Petr Fiala’s government will face a vote of no-confidence in the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday, October 17, the ctk news agency reported. The vote will take place at the instigation of the leading opposition ANO party over the recent revelation that Interior Minister Vit Rakušan from the Mayors and Independents Party had used an encrypted mobile phone in 2021. According to ANO this suggests the minister had something to hide and may have had links to organized crime.

The minister says he used the phone briefly and only because he feared his office might be bugged. Both the prime minister and president say they see no reason for his dismissal.

The Fiala cabinet should easily survive the no-confidence motion, since it has a comfortable 108-seat majority in the lower house.