Overview
- The pact, signed during the new Parliament’s opening session, unites Babis’s ANO with the SPD and a eurosceptic motorists party for a 108 of 200 seat majority.
- The partners agreed a 15-ministry cabinet split with ANO taking eight portfolios, the SPD three, and the motorists party four, with nominees to be named in the coming weeks.
- The coalition program rejects adopting the euro, opposes the EU Green Deal, and favors restrictive asylum rules, setting up potential friction with Brussels.
- SPD leader Tomio Okamura is the nominee for parliamentary speaker, with the vote expected Wednesday as the first parliamentary test for the alliance.
- President Petr Pavel signaled rigorous vetting of ministerial candidates, a hurdle that could affect Babis’s stated goal of starting his new term by mid-December.