At their first meeting with the new government, regional governors want to focus mainly on funding

Representatives of Prime Minister Andrej Babiš’s government (ANO) will meet with regional governors for the first time since the cabinet was formed on Monday at the Straka Academy. According to Martin Netolický (3PK), deputy chairman of the Association of Regions and governor of the Pardubice Region, the governors will focus mainly on financial issues. They coordinated the topics during an online meeting last week.

Netolický told CTK that the agenda should include discussion about changes to the tax revenue distribution system, funding for repairs of lower-class roads that are not covered by this year’s state budget, and planned changes to value-added tax on transport services. If the government pushes through these changes, it could worsen transport services in the regions and create additional costs amounting to millions of crowns, the governor said.