President Klaus to hold talks with party leaders

President Vaclav Klaus has invited the leaders of all five major Czech political parties for talks at Prague Castle on Wednesday morning. Mr. Klaus intends to discuss the current political stalemate with the heads of the Civic Democratic Party, the Social Democrats, the Christian Democrats, the Communists and the Greens, all of whom are represented in the lower house. Mr. Klaus plans to speak with each party leader in private before holding a joint meeting with all to discuss possibilities for a way out of the post-June election deadlock.

More than two months after the elections, the formation of a government remains unclear and MPs have repeatedly failed to elect a speaker of the lower house—a key step in forming the next government.