Opposition leader disrupts session of lower house with insults against PM

Opposition ANO party leader Andrej Babiš disrupted a session of the lower house on Friday with a spate of insults against Prime Minister Petr Fiala during which the entire government and deputies of the ruling coalition left the assembly hall. Mr. Babiš tabled a proposal for the house to discuss the prime minister’s mental health in connection with a number of his recent pronouncements, in particular his promise to raise Czech salaries to the level of those in Germany in four years’ time. Babiš said the prime minister was not fit to run the government. The session was interrupted when coalition deputies walked out. MPs were expected to vote on an amendment on the further extension of temporary protection for refugees from Ukraine.