Poll: nearly 50 percent of Czechs agree with fall of Topolánek’s government

Almost 50 percent of Czechs agree with the toppling of Mirek Topolánek’s cabinet in March, a poll conducted by the CVVM agency and released on Friday suggests. Nearly 40 percent of Czechs, however, say that they are unhappy about the fall of the government halfway through the country’s EU presidency. Around 50 percent of those polled said that they thought the fall of the government had had an adverse effect on the Czech EU presidency. The fall of Mirek Topolánek’s centre-right government coalition in March was brought about by a no-confidence vote initiated by the opposition Social Democrats. This was the first case of a government being toppled in a no-confidence vote in the Czech Chamber of Deputies in the history of the Czech Republic, founded in 1993.