Mirek Topolánek

Mirek Topolánek (born the May 15th 1956 in Vsetín in Czech Republic), is an engineer, a business man and a Czech Politician .

Political career

He was general secretary of the Democratic party ODS, the principal party Czech line. He was named Prime Minister the August 16th 2006, by the president Vaclav Klaus, who preceded it with the head by ODS, and which had entrusted the mission to him of bringing back for the line anticommunist, Eurosceptic and liberal with the capacity. But the Parliament, also divided between right-hand side and left following the legislative elections of the June 2nd and 3rd 2006, refused confidence in October to him. The institutional blocking which was followed from there led Vaclav Klaus to reinvest Mirek Topolánek the November 8th 2006. This last announced on November 13rd that it renonçait to organize anticipated elections to leave the crisis, new as a Czech Republic.

At the end of November the discussions between the ODS and CS on the formation of a government of great coalition seem about to lead, before hooding at the beginning of December. The position of Topolánek is weakened: within his party, the mayor of Prague Pavel Bem makes known more and more openly his availability to constitute a government; his " is criticized; to advise in communication" , omnipresent Marek Dalík, always in its shade without having official function within the party; finally, its link extraconjugale with deputy ODS Lucie Talmanová makes lambsquarters of the tabloid press.

But Topolánek manages to constitute a coalition government ODS/KDU-ČSL/Strana zelených (Greens), that President Klaus will accept only with reserve because of the nomination of Karel Schwarzenberg at the post of Foreign Minister. To ČSSD, Miloš Zeman leaves its retirement and weakens Jiří Paroubek by declarations which will perhaps encourage two deputies of CS, Misters Pohanka and Melčak, to announce a few days before the vote which it will not take share with this one, thus leaving the way open to a nomination on the minimal score of 100 votes out of 200.

January 19th, 2007, the Sněmovna vote confidence with the government (100 votes for, 97 vote against, two not present, an abstention).

See too

List of the current leaders

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