First published in Deník N.
The governing coalition in the Czech Republic has retreated from plans to substantially weaken conflict-of-interest rules that would have benefited the Agrofert conglomerate and prime minister Andrej Babiš.
The government has decided that the proposal requires several changes and must be reconsidered.
“The government took a neutral position on the proposal and listed roughly ten points in which it believed it would be appropriate to change or amend the law,” justice minister Jeroným Tejc of the populist ANO party said after the cabinet meeting last month.
The justice ministry provided Deník N with a position paper in which the government explained why it would not support the proposal drafted by coalition MPs Radek Vondráček, David Pražák, Marie Pošarová and Filip Turek without further amendments.
