{"id":322299,"date":"2026-01-16T15:35:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=322299"},"modified":"2026-01-16T15:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:35:14","slug":"czech-babis-govt-wins-vote-of-confidence-in-lower-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=322299","title":{"rendered":"Czech: Babis gov&#8217;t wins vote of confidence in lower house"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/vFpwlwdUydv6ieGhjlPSVA--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyNDI7aD04Mjg7Y2Y9d2VicA--\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/ap.org\/e762d69ed529aa6947189f2d1e1df0fd\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Czech Republic&#8217;s Prime Minister Andrej Babis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>PRAGUE, Jan 16 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8212; The coalition government led by ANO party leader Andrej Babis won a vote of confidence in the Czech Chamber of Deputies on Thursday, formally obtaining constitutional legitimacy to govern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The coalition, comprising Babis&#8217; ANO party, the Freedom and Direct Democracy party (SPD) and the Motorists for Themselves, secured 108 votes in the 200-seat parliament. Babis hailed the unity of his coalition following the vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the Czech Republic&#8217;s constitution, a newly appointed government must present itself to the Chamber of Deputies within 30 days of its appointment to seek a vote of confidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vote followed a debate lasting about 26 hours of session time, the longest of its kind in the country&#8217;s history, according to the website of CT24 news channel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Babis won the parliamentary election last October and was sworn in as prime minister in December last year.\u00a0&#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRAGUE, Jan 16 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8212; The coalition government led by ANO party leader Andrej Babis won a vote of confidence in the Czech Chamber of Deputies on Thursday, formally obtaining constitutional legitimacy to govern. The coalition, comprising Babis&#8217; ANO party, the Freedom and Direct Democracy party (SPD) and the Motorists for Themselves, secured 108 votes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322299"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=322299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322300,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322299\/revisions\/322300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=322299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}