President Klaus content with progress on coalition talks

President Vaclav Klaus has expressed satisfaction with the progress that coalition talks have made. Following a meeting with Civic Democrat leader Mirek Topolanek on Wednesday, Mr Klaus did not object to the three-party coalition being one short of the majority necessary to win a confidence vote. In a Czech Radio interview last year, the President said he wanted the parties of a new government to guarantee that they will have majority seats in parliament. At the time of the interview, though, he reacted to speculation that the main party in the fragile coalition, the Social Democrats, planned to form a minority government with the tacit support of the Communists.