Greens approve Liska’s nomination for education minister

The Green Party have nominated their deputy chairman and member of parliament Ondrej Liska for education minister. The approval of the 30-year-old Liska was preceded by a long and heated debate in the broader leadership of the party. The Greens’ partners in government, the Civic Democrats and the Christian Democrats, have expressed their agreement with the candidacy. President Vaclav Klaus will appoint Mr Liska on Tuesday. Last week he expressed his concerns regarding Mr Liska’s relatively young age.

The search for a new education minister has taken more than two months, since Dana Kuchtova resigned having failed to secure billions of crowns worth of EU funds which had been earmarked for the Czech Republic. The search for her successor has split the Green Party, with some deputies insisting that she should be re-instated.