Finally, Filip Turek will not take a seat in the government of Andrej Babiš, President Petr Pavel rejects his appointment as a minister. Government coordination meetings at Prague Castle are also ending.
Filip Turek will not be in Andrej Babiš’s government, because President Petr Pavel will never appoint him to the post of minister. The Czech Prime Minister told journalists on Wednesday after the meeting of the State Security Council. According to him, at the morning meeting, he and the president agreed on the need to calm the situation. At the same time, Babiš announced that the coordination meetings of the highest constitutional officials on the foreign policy of the Czech Republic, which were regularly held at Prague Castle, will no longer take place. They are said not to be necessary, informs the correspondent of TASR in Prague.
- Filip Turek will not be a minister in the government of Andrej Babiš.
- President Petr Pavel refuses to appoint him as a minister.
“We stated that we are interested in the situation regarding the various statements against the President by my coalition partners calming down,” declared the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic. He recalled that he and the members of the cabinet agreed that they were not interested in a conflict with the castle.
Filip Turek will not be in the government
Babiš considers the topic of a ministerial post for the honorary chairman of the Motoristi sebe party, Filip Turk, for which the whole dispute with the president arose, to be closed. “Mr. President is not willing to appoint him as a minister, so this is already gone and we will not return to it… He will not be in the government because Mr. President will never appoint him,” he added.
According to him, he and Pavlo agreed that it makes no sense to continue the coordination meetings on Czech foreign policy in the current format – that is, that the head of state, the prime minister, the presidents of both chambers of the parliament and mostly the minister of foreign affairs also met. Only Babiš himself will meet Pavlo.
He pointed out that the parties coordinate the foreign policy of the government within the coalition. According to Babiš, the president will probably meet with all constitutional officials separately. “The conclusion is that we will meet bilaterally with Mr. President regarding foreign policy… We agreed that only Mr. President and I will negotiate. This means that he will negotiate with Mr. Vystrčil and I will deal with it within the coalition. So there will be no more meetings, because they are not even necessary,” Babiš added.
