President Miloš Zeman is set to hold talks with representatives of ANO,
the Civic Democrats and the Czech Pirate Party, who came first, second and
third in last weekend’s general elections, at his Lány residence next
week. In the following fortnight the head of state plans to speak to
leaders of the other six parties that made it into the Chamber of Deputies.
Mr. Zeman’s spokesman said he would officially charge the leader of
election winners ANO, Andrej Babiš, with forming a new government at their
meeting on Tuesday. The president has said he would like to assist in the
formation of a stable new government. He plans to convene the first meeting
of the new lower house at the latest possible date, 30 days after the
election.
ANO and various other parties that reached the five-percent threshold to
get into Parliament have been holding a series of meetings on the
composition of the new Chamber of Deputies and sounding one another out
with regard to possible coalitions.