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07/11/2013
Senator Tomio Okamura has filed a criminal lawsuit against the Czech branch of the anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International. Mr Okamura accused the group of breaching the law by conducting unauthorized business activities and providing inaccurate financial reports. The senator also said TI sponged off public funds. Last year, the watchdog criticized Mr Okamura over non-transparent financing of his presidential campaign.
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07/11/2013
The air forces of 19 NATO members are set to take part in the annual Ramstein Rover exercise held in the Czech Republic in September, the Czech Army said. This year, the exercise will focus on practising cooperation of tactical aircraft and helicopters with forward air controllers, with a view to fulfilling their tasks in NATO’s ISAF mission in Afghanistan, the army said.
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07/11/2013
Two hundred and 36 people died on Czech roads between January and June this year, which is the lowest number for that period of the year since 1970, the police said on Thursday. Nearly 40,300 traffic accidents occurred in the first six months of 2013, which was some 1,200 more than in the same period last year. Poor driving and speeding were the most frequent causes, according to the police.
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07/11/2013
The police in Karlovy Vary are investigating a case of a physician who treated his patients while drunk, a police spokesman said. A 51-year-old doctor was reportedly treating patients with 2 per mille of alcohol in his blood, the police said, without giving any further details.
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07/11/2013
Police sniffer dogs uncovered two tiger skeletons concealed in wooden speaker boxes at Prague airport, the Czech Environmental Inspection said. The skeletons were probably on their way to a country in Asia where they could fetch some 24,000 US dollars, according to the inspectors. The police are looking for the owners of the contraband, who could face up to three years in jail.
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07/10/2013
An interim government headed by Jiří Rusnok, an economist and adviser to President Miloš Zeman, was sworn in by the president at Prague Castle on Wednesday. The caretaker government will have 30 days to win a confidence vote in the lower house of Parliament. So far, most parliamentary parties have said they will not support this government. If it fails to win backing, President Miloš Zeman can task a new prime minister with forming a new cabinet.
During the swearing-in ceremony the president said that one of the main goals of the government was to prevent political influence in ongoing police investigations and to secure the independence of the court system.
The previous government of Petr Nečas, which was supposed to remain in power until next spring, fell last month after the prime minister’s close aide was charged in connection with a spying and corruption scandal.
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07/10/2013
Prime Minister Jiří Rusnok will begin to gather support in parliament for his newly appointed government starting next week. Speaking after officially taking over the office of the government from his predecessor Petr Nečas on Wednesday, Mr. Rusnok said his cabinet will now be working on a program statement. The outgoing prime minister handed over the one of the keys to the coronation jewels and said that he respects Mr. Rusnok as an expert in his field.
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07/10/2013
Chairwoman of the Chamber of Deputies, Miroslava Němcová, did not remain for a celebratory toast after the official part of the swearing-in ceremony of the new government, where she was invited as one of the top constitutional officials in the country. In an interview for the news server iDnes.cz later on Wednesday, Mrs. Němcová said she thinks the Jiří Rusnok’s government is dangerous and that she did not want to pretend to wish the new cabinet well. She said she felt it was her duty to attend the ceremony, and wanted to remind the president and the new government that they do not have the support of the lower house of parliament. The former center-right ruling coalition nominated Mrs. Němcová for the post of prime minister instead of Petr Nečas, before President Zeman called on Jiří Rusnok to form a technocrat government.
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07/10/2013
The police asked former Prime Minister Petr Nečas on Wednesday to come in for questioning this Friday. Mr. Nečas will most likely be questioned in connection with two cases, which the organized crime unit has been investigating: one involves the former prime minister’s chief-of-staff Jana Nagyová who is suspected of using military intelligence resources to spy on Mr. Nečas’s wife. He is also suspected of offering non-monetary bribes to three former MPs, a charge Mr. Nečas has denied. The Olomouc High State Attorney submitted a request to the lower house of parliament earlier this week requesting Petr Nečas to be stripped of his immunity, so he could be charged. The Mandate and Immunity committee of the lower house will begin reviewing the request next week.
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07/10/2013
While it had initially appeared unlikely that the Rusnok government could win a vote of confidence, Mladá fronta Dnes reported on Wednesday that such an outcome may after all be possible. The newspaper said it had spoken to all members of the lower house in recent days (apart from two who are in prison) and found that none of the parties represented had a united position on the caretaker cabinet. While 112 of the 198 deputies surveyed said they were opposed to it, a number of them – particularly in the Social Democrats – said their positions could change.
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