Greens to no longer support interim government

The Green Party say they will no longer support the caretaker Czech cabinet. Chairman Ondřej Liška also called on the party’s only nominee remaining in the government, Human Rights Minister Michael Kocáb, to quit. Tuesday’s announcement came just days after the interim prime minister, Jan Fischer, asked the agriculture minister to also serve as minister of the environment, a post previously occupied by a Greens nominee. The caretaker government will step down after elections at the end of May. Some opinion polls have suggested the Green Party will not reach the five-percent threshold required to get into the next Czech parliament.