Ministers discuss next year’s budget

Ministers are discussing next year’s budget at Wednesday’s government meeting, and the cabinet may submit it to the Chamber of Deputies after the lower house is constituted next week. Health Minister Vlastimil Válek (TOP 09) told journalists this upon arriving at the meeting. The head of the ANO movement and likely future prime minister, Andrej Babiš, repeatedly called on the current cabinet of Prime Minister Petr Fiala (ODS) to resubmit the draft budget to the lower house.