Czech parliament rejects early election plan, standoff to last


  • World
  • Wednesday, 17 Jul 2013

PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech lower house of parliament rejected a motion on Wednesday to dissolve itself and force an early election in September, setting up more months of political uncertainty.

The motion was proposed by the centre-left Social Democrats after leftist President Milos Zeman picked his long-time ally, Jiri Rusnok, last month to lead a new government against the will of the main political parties.

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