Pirate Party leader discusses policy program priorities with former coalition partner

Ivan Bartoš, the outgoing chair of the Pirate Party whom the prime minister has dismissed from the cabinet, on Wednesday met with Vít Rakušan, leader of the Mayors and Independents with whom the Pirate Party was in a coalition when it entered the government, to discuss the ongoing government crisis. The Pirates are likely to leave the government in protest against the dismissal of their leader, but Bartoš said he did not call on the Mayors and Independents to act in solidarity and walk out with them. He said the talks had focussed on a number of policy program priorities with which the two parties had entered the government and which still need to be fulfilled.