Website: regular elections in November could cause problems with budget

If elections are held this November, approving the following year’s budget could be difficult when regular elections are held every four years, the news website idnes.cz wrote on Saturday. General elections have previously been held in June at the end of a fixed term, meaning new governments should be in place in advance of the period when a new budget is considered. The current caretaker finance minister, Eduard Janota, told idnes.cz that at least two and a half months was needed to debate a budget. The Civic Democrats’ Petr Nečas suggested one way out could be to have a budget that starts in March or April.