Josef Tošovský government

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The Josef Tošovský government acted as a non-partisan transitional government from January 2 to June 17, 1998, until after the early parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic in 1998 . It came into being after the break up of the Václav Klaus II government . The head of government was the independent governor of the Czech National Bank, Josef Tošovský .

The incumbent Prime Minister Václav Klaus resigned in November 1997 after a group of members of his ODS around the ministers and vice chairmen Ivan Pilip and Jan Ruml tried to overthrow him as party chairman as a result of a party donation scandal . The previous coalition partners ODA and KDU-ČSL then left the government, which finally lost the majority in parliament, which is why Klaus resigned as prime minister. Since there were no alternative political majorities for a new government in parliament either, President Václav Havel commissioned the independent governor of the Czech National Bank, Josef Tošovský, to form a government that would have a limited mandate until the parliamentary elections were scheduled ahead of schedule. Tošovský formed a cabinet that included many non-party experts as well as members of the previous governing parties KDU-ČSL and ODA as well as members of the ODS in the platform around Ruml and Pilip, which later formed the Unie svobody (Freedom Union) party. On January 28, 1998, this government received the confidence of parliament with 123 of 197 votes. In addition to the members of the parties represented in the government and the platform of members of the ODS around Ruml and Pilip, the parliamentarians of the social democratic ČSSD also voted for the government . The MPs of the ODS around the party chairman Václav Klaus, the Communist MPs of the KSCM and the nationalist MPs of the Sdružení pro republiku - Republikánská strana Československa (SPR-RSČ) voted against the cabinet. The cabinet held office until the government of the Social Democrat Miloš Zeman was sworn in .

composition

Portfej	minister	Political party		Taking office	End of office
Prime Minister	Josef Tošovský		independent	January 2, 1998	July 17, 1998
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture	Josef Lux		KDU-ČSL	January 2, 1998	July 17, 1998
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister	Jaroslav Šedivý		independent	January 2, 1998	July 17, 1998
Environment Minister	Jiří Skalický		ODA	January 2, 1998	February 20, 1998
	Martin Bursík		independent	February 27, 1998	July 17, 1998
Minister for Rural Development	Jan Černý		ODS	January 2, 1998	July 17, 1998
Minister for Industry and Trade	Karel Kühnl		ODA	January 2, 1998	July 17, 1998
Minister of Defense	Michal Lobkowicz		ODS	January 2, 1998	July 17, 1998
Ministers without portfolio and government spokesman	Vladimír Mlynář		independent	January 2, 1998	July 17, 1998
Minister of transport	Petr Moos		independent	January 2, 1998	July 17, 1998
Minister of Justice	Vlasta Parkanová		ODA	January 2, 1998	July 17, 1998
Finance minister	Ivan Pilip		ODS	January 2, 1998	July 17, 1998
Minister of Health	Zuzana Roithová		independent	January 2, 1998	July 17, 1998
Minister for Education, Youth and Sport	Jan Sokol		independent	January 2, 1998	July 17, 1998
Minister of Culture	Martin Stropnický		independent	January 2, 1998	July 17, 1998
Interior minister	Cyril Svoboda		KDU-ČSL	January 2, 1998	July 17, 1998
Minister for Labor and Social Affairs	Stanislav Volák		ODS	January 2, 1998	July 17, 1998
Minister without Portfolio and Chairman of the Legislative Council	Miloslav Výborný		KDU-ČSL	January 2, 1998	July 15, 1998