Klaus expects progress report from Topolanek by 1st week in August

President Vaclav Klaus said on Friday he expected Civic Democrat chairman Mirek Topolanek to report to him on the state of the coalition talks by the first week of August. On Thursday and Friday President Klaus held separate meetings with the heads of all parties in parliament. Last month President Klaus authorised Mr Topolanek, whose party received the largest share of the votes, to launch talks on a new governing coalition. However, the negotiations have produced no concrete result as both the right and the left have 100 deputies in the 200-member lower house after the June parliamentary elections.