{"id":168078,"date":"2018-06-27T04:39:39","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T08:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=168078"},"modified":"2018-06-27T04:39:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T08:39:39","slug":"czech-president-appoints-government-led-by-billionaire-babis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/06\/27\/czech-president-appoints-government-led-by-billionaire-babis\/","title":{"rendered":"Czech president appoints government led by billionaire Babis"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_149236\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-149236\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Milo\u0161-Zeman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-149236\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Milo\u0161-Zeman.jpg\" alt=\"President Milos Zeman asked Babis to try to form a new government again, and these members were sworn in Wednesday.(Photo by De OISV - Trabajo propio, CC BY-SA 4.0)\" width=\"800\" height=\"1053\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Milo\u0161-Zeman.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Milo\u0161-Zeman-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Milo\u0161-Zeman-768x1011.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Milo\u0161-Zeman-778x1024.jpg 778w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-149236\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Milos Zeman asked Babis to try to form a new government again, and these members were sworn in Wednesday.(<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=63637004\">Photo by De OISV &#8211; Trabajo <\/a>propio, CC BY-SA 4.0)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>PRAGUE, Czech Republic &#8211; The Czech Republic&#8217;s president has sworn in a new government led by billionaire Andrej Babis for a second time, in a move supposed to end a period of political instability following last year&#8217;s general election.<\/p>\n<p>The centrist ANO (YES) movement led by Babis won the election in October, but his minority government lost a confidence vote in January and had to resign. Other parties in Parliament have been reluctant to enter a coalition with ANO because of fraud charges Babis faces.<\/p>\n<p>President Milos Zeman asked Babis to try to form a new government again, and these members were sworn in Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>His new government is a coalition with the Social Democrats that would have support from the far-left Communists in the mandatory confidence vote expected on July 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRAGUE, Czech Republic &#8211; The Czech Republic&#8217;s president has sworn in a new government led by billionaire Andrej Babis for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":149236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[52243,27102],"class_list":["post-168078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-andrej-babis","tag-president-milos-zeman","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}