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Around one in five children spend more than five hours a day on the internet, according to a mini-survey by the Czech Statistics Office presented on Wednesday.

The largest group of children, about 22 percent, spend around three hours online each day. Children most often use the internet to play games, with boys playing significantly more than girls. Around nine in ten children said they used artificial intelligence tools at least occasionally.

More than 83,500 pupils from about 5,500 classes at roughly 1,100 schools took part in the survey, which focused on students in grades four to nine of primary schools and lower grades of multi-year grammar schools.

While the results are not fully representative, Statistics Office head Marek Rojíček said the high participation rate gives them strong indicative value.

Opposition parties are seeking a vote of no confidence in the government over text messages sent by Foreign Minister Petr Macinka (Motorists’ Party) to President Petr Pavel.

The extraordinary session of the Chamber of Deputies will be convened by Speaker Tomio Okamura (SPD) on Tuesday next week, after the opposition collected the required 81 signatures.

Representatives of all five opposition parties announced the move at a press conference on Wednesday, arguing that Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO) has failed to condemn Macinka’s remarks and has not clearly stated whether the minister still has his support.

The ruling coalition of ANO, SPD and Motorists has no interest in a trench war between the government and Prague Castle, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš said on Wednesday in response to the dispute between Foreign Minister Petr Macinka and President Petr Pavel.

Speaking at a session of the lower house, Babiš said Macinka’s messages to the president were poorly worded, but added that he understands the Motorists’ frustration over Pavel’s refusal to appoint their honorary president, Filip Turek, as environment minister. The opposition is calling on the government to at least apologise for Macinka’s remarks about the president.

On Tuesday, President Pavel said Macinka had sent him messages via adviser Petr Kolář that he considers extremely serious and amounting to blackmail. The presidential office later published the communication. The messages concern Turek’s proposed appointment, which the president has rejected.

Macinka excused himself from Wednesday’s parliamentary session due to a foreign trip to Brussels.

The editors-in-chief of ten Czech media outlets called on the Foreign Ministry on Tuesday to allow all media to attend its press briefings, in an open letter addressed to the Ministry. The move followed a briefing by Foreign Minister Petr Macinka (Motorists’ Party), which representatives of Deník N, a Czech independent daily, were not allowed to attend. The editors described this as unacceptable.

In the briefing Macinka was addressing his dispute with President Petr Pavel and the alleged messages he had sent to the president. However, at the briefing journalists pointed out that Deník N reporter Zdislava Pokorná had not been allowed into the room. Macinka responded to questions about the exclusion by saying: “Well, we’re terrible, I know.”