Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:48:44 +0200https://english.radio.cz/new-center-left-coalition-government-gets-down-business-8540007© 2026 Radio Prague International The appointment of a new center-left coalition government to office on Wednesday has ended a six- month power vacuum during which the country was ruled by an interim administration handpicked by the president. Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka’s three party coalition has promised to boost economic growth, streamline state administration, raise pensions and bring the country back to the EU mainstream. But commentators are already predicting hard times ahead for an alliance of parties as politically diverse as the Social Democrats, ANO and the Christian Democrats. I asked commentator Jiří Pehe what could hold them together. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/sobotka_babis_belobradek.jpg?timestamp=1591142120 https://english.radio.cz/new-center-left-coalition-government-gets-down-business-8540007 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9