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Czech government faces no-confidence vote in Parliament over a dispute with the president
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From left, European Council President Antonio Costa, Czech Republic's Prime Minister Andrej Babis and European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas speak during a round table meeting at the EU summit in Brussels, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026. - photo by AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert
PRAGUE (AP) — The new Czech Republic coalition government of populist Prime Minister Andrej Babiš on Tuesday faced a parliamentary no-confidence vote over the handling of a dispute with the country’s president. The opposition parties that requested the vote have sided with President Petr Pavel, who accused Foreign Minister Petr Macinka of blackmailing him, because he refused to appoint a government minister representing the right-wing Motorists for Themselves euroskeptic party. Macinka heads the Motorists.