Overview
- The ANO leader signed a governing pact with Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) and Motorists for Themselves, giving the bloc 108 of 200 lower-house seats (ANO 80, SPD 15, Motorists 13).
- President Petr Pavel previously tasked Andrej Babiš with forming a cabinet, and once ministers are appointed the government must win a confidence vote within 30 days.
- The draft coalition program seen by POLITICO calls the EU Green Deal unsustainable, pledges to resist implementing ETS2 in Czech law, seeks a reassessment of ETS1, and rejects the 2035 combustion‑engine sales ban.
- Babiš intends to centralize EU policy under the prime minister’s office by abolishing the minister for European affairs, with an expected return to the European Council meeting on December 18–19.
- Personnel picks face scrutiny, with prospective foreign minister Filip Turek denying authorship of alleged racist, sexist and homophobic Facebook posts and Motorists chairman Petr Macinka criticized for calling human‑driven climate change “pure propaganda.”