Czech Republic election winner ANO hopes to conclude negotiations with two small parties on forming a new government by the beginning of November, party leader Andrej Babis said on Wednesday (8 October).
The former prime minister's populist ANO group won the 3-4 October parliamentary election at the weekend and is on track to replace the centre-right cabinet of Prime Minister Petr Fiala.
Babis is in talks with the right-wing, eurosceptic Motorists and the far-right, anti-European Union and anti-NATO SPD parties on forming a coalition government which would have 108 out of 200 seats in the lower house of parliament.
Babis said an outline of an agreement could be done by the end of this week, and a complete coalition deal before the new lower house meets for the first time on 3 November.
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"I hope that by the time of the new house (first meeting) we will manage to complete the coalition agreement," Babis said in a Facebook video message.
The first session will elect a new house speaker before the formal resignation of the outgoing cabinet - the earliest moment a new prime minister can be appointed.
Babis had pledged to scrap a scheme to source ammunition for Ukraine through Czech arms traders and producers with Western funding, calling it overpriced and lacking transparency.
The initiative has the support of the Motorists but not the SPD, which wants to cut all aid to Ukraine, including for hundreds of thousands of refugees settled in the Czech Republic.
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