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Fri 03 Mar 2009EU presidency in disarray as Czech prime minister resigns
THE PROSPECT of snap elections in the Czech Republic has grown after outgoing prime minister Mirek Topolanek supported early polls and President Vaclav Klaus rejected the idea of a caretaker government running the country for several months.
Mr Topolanek submitted his resignation yesterday, after his government’s narrow defeat in Tuesday’s confidence vote in parliament, in which two members of the ruling Civic Democrat party (ODS) sided with the opposition Social Democrats and Communists.
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