Czech government survives no-confidence vote


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  • Thursday, 27 Jun 2019

FILE PHOTO: Czech Republic's Prime Minister Andrej Babis arrives at a European Union leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium December 13, 2018. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw/File Photo

PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech minority government led by the populist ANO party on Thursday survived a vote of no confidence called by the opposition, after a series of public protests against Prime Minister Andrej Babis.

Babis, a billionaire turned politician, has faced pressure from investigations into alleged fraud over EU subsidies and conflicts of interest regarding ties to his former business empire, one of the largest in the central European EU nation.

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