Czech PM out on No-confidence vote

2009-03-26 06:14:04 - Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek has said that he would be willing to resign from his post as Civic Democrat leader on certain conditions. On Sunday evening, Mr Topolánek said that if the Civic Democrats could find someone who was able to implement the party’s centre-right programme, and who had mass support, he would be willing to stand down. The prime minister said he was sure the Civic Democrats could win the next election, but only if the party continued to implement its current programme. He rejected the opposition Social Democrats’ calls for his whole cabinet to resign. Radio Prague.

On interview with the TV broadcaster Prima, President Václav Klaus said he thought the Czech Republic’s upcoming EU presidency would be insignificant, and that France, Germany, Italy and Britain were the only countries in Europe to really be able to change the EU. Mr Klaus said that no one ‘noticed’ when Slovenia presided over the EU earlier this year because,
as a small country, it had no power to influence anything. He predicted that it would be this way when the Czechs take the reigns in January 2009.
Mirk Topolanek was put on acid test for no-confidence vote by the social demoratic leader Jim Paroubek,the Premier floor on March 24, test result was 101 to 96 in the 200 seats of lower house in which three members were not present.

(live-PR.com) - Czech is therefore on the threshold of the government to resign today,Mirck Topolanek lost no-confidence motion on 24 March .The collapse of the Czech government further adds setback for the European Union in content of governing treaty, to passage of the treaty by lawmakers in Prague.

Czech government has its term of six-month EU presidency, a political vacuum in the run-up
to European Parliament elections and a battle over top EU appointments in June with lame duck president of EU which needs complete total new political struture to co-ordiate with US government and President at G20 summit in London on April 2 where leaders from the biggest economic giants are to tackle the global fiscal crisis.

Caretaker Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek addressing lawmakers at the European Parliament in Strasbourg that "the United States is not on the right path" with its costly plans to jump start the world's biggest economy."All of these steps, their combination and their permanency is a way to hell. We need to read the history books," he said.Czech Vice Prime Minister Alexandr Vondra later commented, denying before journalists at a news conference at the parliament that Topolanek made the "hell" remark.

Lisbon Treaty is the fourth constitutional amends, the EU in order to boost its global profile, expand the 16-country region using the euro currency and complete the integration of eastern Europe.The Parliaments of twenty five EU countries have endorsed the treaty, leaving the Czech Republic and Ireland duo holdouts. Czech lower house has backed the agreement, which can be killed by a single nation’s veto, setting up a decisive Senate vote.
Topolanek now a caretaker role by this week’s no-confidence vote, exposing his political weakness as he pleads with the Czech Senate to ratify the treaty.“It will be a lot more difficult to convince people now,” Deputy Prime Minister Alexandr Vondra said yesterday. No date has been set for a Senate vote.

White House write off Topolanek's remarks ment for domestic consumption."From what I can tell, the speaker has some domestic political problems that might speak more to what he was talking about," said White House spokesman Robert Gibbs in Washington.US Officials said that Obama would go ahead with the Prague visit on April 4 and 5, despite the government's fall.

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