{"id":476264,"date":"2025-10-05T16:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T16:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/476264\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T16:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T16:54:10","slug":"czech-president-puts-nato-eu-at-core-of-cabinet-talks-after-elections-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/476264\/","title":{"rendered":"Czech president puts NATO, EU at core of Cabinet talks after elections \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Pavel held meetings on Sunday with several party leaders who secured seats in the Czech parliament\u2019s lower house in this weekend\u2019s elections, which were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/babis-poised-to-triumph-in-czech-election\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/babis-poised-to-triumph-in-czech-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dominated by Babi\u0161 and his right-wing ANO party<\/a>. Pavel will meet with the rest of the party leaders on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s still too early to discuss a mandate to form a government,\u201d Pavel said. \u201cIt will only make sense to discuss this once there\u2019s a clearer outline of a government that could realistically secure the support of the Chamber of Deputies. And we\u2019re not there yet,\u201d he said, adding that he assumes the inaugural session of the new Cabinet will take place in November.<\/p>\n<p>In Czechia, the president holds a key constitutional role, meeting with party leaders after elections to explore possible coalitions. Usually, the winner of the election is given the first chance, but the president ultimately decides who will be tasked with forming a government, choosing the leader most likely to secure a majority in the 200-seat lower chamber of parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Once a government with at least a 101-seat majority is established, the president appoints the prime minister and ministers, but the government must still win a vote of confidence.<\/p>\n<p>Babi\u0161 on Saturday said he will seek to form a minority government supported by the right-wing populist Motorists for Themselves and far-right Freedom and Democracy (SPD) parties.<\/p>\n<p>Pavel previously said he is consulting lawyers on the question of whether to block Babi\u0161 over\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/czech-president-petr-pavel-andrej-babis-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the conflict of interest<\/a>\u00a0posed by the tycoon\u2019s large agriculture empire Agrofert. Pavel said he has discussed the matter with Babi\u0161.<\/p>\n<p>CZECHIA NATIONAL PARLIAMENT POLL OF POLLS<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #9a9a9a; font-size: 14px; text-align: center; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">For more polling data from across Europe visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/europe-poll-of-polls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><a style=\"color: #9a9a9a;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/europe-poll-of-polls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> POLITICO Poll of Polls<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAndrej Babi\u0161 confirmed \u2026 that if he is given the mandate to form a government and is appointed, he will resolve the conflict of interest in accordance with the law,\u201d said Pavel, adding that there are several options.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe even showed me some of them, but I won\u2019t comment further for now until it becomes relevant. But the options he proposed are indeed all ways to comply with the law,\u201d added Pavel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pavel held meetings on Sunday with several party leaders who secured seats in the Czech parliament\u2019s lower house&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[71115,97491,3032,33,28284,2000,299,5187,85427],"class_list":{"0":"post-476264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-andrej-babis","9":"tag-czech-politics","10":"tag-czech-republic","11":"tag-elections","12":"tag-elections-in-europe","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-european","16":"tag-general-petr-pavel"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115322608953821880","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}