Klaus thinks thirty-year-old Liska too young for the post

Czech president Vaclav Klaus has reacted to Mr Liska’s nomination by questioning whether someone so young would be able to run the Education Ministry effectively. Mr Klaus voiced his opinion in an address to students of Brno’s Masaryk University, telling undergraduates that the thirty-year-old Liska was ‘not much older than they were’. Mr Klaus said that he foresaw difficulties in Mr Liska’s dealings with the sixty and seventy-year-old rectors of the Czech Republic’s biggest universities, and that for this reason, he would only be able to appoint Mr Liska against his better judgement.