Green Party elects new leadership

Environment Minister Martin Bursik has been confirmed in the post of Green Party chairman by a national party convention which has been meeting in Prague this weekend. Education Minister Dana Kuchtova was re-elected deputy chairperson. Another party deputy chairman, Prague councillor Petr Stepanek, was replaced by Ondrej Liska in a vote on Sunday. Prior to the congress, the leadership of the party had announced it would step down and ask for re-election after a left-wing faction within the party disagreed with the Greens joining the centre-right coalition government along with the Civic and Christian Democrats.