New cabinet has fewer posts, no women

The proposed cabinet has two striking characteristics: its size and the absence of any women in it. The 15-strong team is one of the smallest in the Czech Republic’s history with the number of seats equalling the minimum set by the short-lived Civic Democrat government of Mirek Topolánek in 2006. The outgoing government of prime minister Jan Fisher had 18 members. The lack of any women is less unusual with the first government of Civic Democrat premier Václav Klaus and the initial team of Social Democrat Miloš Zeman being made up entirely of men.