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Article: Czech coalition parties sign agreement, prepare for parliamentary confidence vote.
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- Czech Business News
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- June 26, 2006
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Czech coalition parties sign agreement, prepare for parliamentary confidence vote
PRAGUE. JUNE 26. INTERFAX CENTRAL EUROPE - The right-wing Civic Democrats (ODS), winners of the June 2-3 Czech general elections, signed a coalition agreement with their partners, the Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL) and the Greens (SZ), on Monday and the coalition now awaits the difficult task of winning a confidence vote in the evenly-divided Czech parliament, the novinky.cz website reported.
Under the terms of the coalition agreement, ODS leader Mirek Topolanek would become prime minister, while the leaders of the two junior partners, Miroslav Kalousek (KDU-CSL) and Martin ...