Parties offer candidates for new cabinet

Three Czech political parties on Thursday offered the PM of the caretaker government, Jan Fischer, their candidates for cabinet positions. The Civic Democrats nominated five ministers, including Tomáš Uvíra as the new finance minister; the Greens came up with three potential members of the new cabinet, while the Social Democrats offered their nominees for six ministries including Jan Kohout as the new foreign minister and Štefan Fule as the deputy PM for European affairs. Mr Fischer asked for a week’s time for consultations before he announces the line-up of the caretaker government to the president, Václav Klaus. The Christian Democrats rejected the opportunity to nominate their own candidates, while the Communists were left out of the nomination process.