Petr Nečas government

Petr Nečas (2013)

The government of Nečas formed the government of the Czech Republic between July 13, 2010 and July 10, 2013 .

It consisted of a conservative-bourgeois coalition of the parties ODS , TOP 09 and LIDEM under Prime Minister Petr Nečas . The initial ruling party Věci veřejné (VV) formally terminated the coalition agreement in April 2012 and has since seen itself as a “constructive opposition”. The previous VV ministers around Deputy Prime Minister Karolína Peake continued to belong to the cabinet. They were able to rely on some MPs who left the VV and who have now launched the LIDEM party.

The government replaced Jan Fischer's government , a transitional government made up of experts and high-ranking officials proposed by the major parties ODS and ČSSD , after the parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic in 2010 had no chance of forming a coalition for the strongest social democrats (ČSSD). With all 118 votes of the coalition (out of 200 parliamentarians), she received the confidence of the Czech House of Representatives on August 10, 2010.

The government's term of office ended on June 17, 2013 with the resignation of the Prime Minister after a corruption scandal. Until the Jiří Rusnok government took office on July 10, 2013, the previous ministers managed the office on a provisional basis.

composition

In addition to the Prime Minister, the ODS initially provided five ministers, the TOP 09 five ministers, and the VV four. With the split in the VV parliamentary group, the acting ministers of the VV left their parliamentary group and remained in the government. At the end of 2012 there were three non-party members working in the cabinet.

Initially, the Nečas government consisted of only men. Since July 1, 2011, Karolína Peake has also been a woman at the cabinet table.

Environment Minister Pavel Drobil resigned on December 21, 2010 after a corruption scandal involving the Environment Fund. At the same time there was a motion of censure by the left opposition in the House of Representatives . The office was managed by Rut Bízková until January 17, 2011.

Education Minister Josef Dobeš announced his resignation on March 21, 2012. The Nečas cabinet thus lost its eighth minister two years after taking office. As a reason Dobeš cited the government's austerity targets, for which he did not want to take responsibility. During his tenure, however, he had to deal with several scandals and was under strong public criticism.

Justice Minister Jiří Pospíšil was surprisingly dismissed on June 27, 2012 by President Klaus at the request of Prime Minister Petr Nečas. Nečas officially justified this step with the minister's management failure in implementing the government's austerity policy. The opposition, however, claimed that the dismissal was based on a power struggle within the government over control of the prosecutor's office.

Labor Minister Jaromír Drábek had to resign in October 2012 because of a corruption affair involving his deputy.

Transport Minister Pavel Dobeš submitted on November 14, 2012 his resignation on December 3. The LIDEM party executive blamed him for problems that arose with software from the vehicle registration authorities.

Defense Minister Alexandr Vondra announced his resignation on November 28, 2012, with effect from December 7, 2012. He justified his resignation with the fact that he clearly missed re-election in the elections to the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic in early October 2012. In fact, there have been frequent calls for resignation before against Vondra in connection with the award of overpriced government contracts. On December 12th, Vice Prime Minister Karolína Peake was appointed as his successor. After only eight days in office, however, Peake was also dismissed by President Klaus at the instigation of the Prime Minister because of a dispute over the staffing of the ministry. In particular, there was a dispute over Peake's dismissal of Deputy Defense Minister Vlastimil Picek . After a few weeks, Vlastimil Picek was appointed as the new defense minister on the proposal of the prime minister.

On June 12, 2013, Minister of Culture Alena Hanáková (for TOP 09 ) , who had been in office for 18 months, announced her resignation with effect from June 30, after criticism of her work by cultural workers due to a lack of support in her own party. That was the 13th change of minister in the legislature at the time. Since Prime Minister Nečas submitted his resignation on June 17 and the term of office of the entire government ended anyway, Hanáková's intended resignation was no longer possible.

Government crises

The conviction in April 2012 of the former transport minister and incumbent chairman of the VV party, Vít Bárta , for bribing members of his own party, also led to a major government crisis when the VV faction broke up. The VV formally decided to leave the coalition, but some MPs and all incumbent ministers of the VV voted against this step. The Prime Minister did not rule out early elections. However, the government survived a vote of confidence on April 27, 2012 because the government-loyal MPs of the VV had meanwhile left their parliamentary group and voted against the motion of no confidence. The government received the approval of 105 of 200 members of the Chamber of Deputies, while 93 members expressed their distrust. The parliamentary groups of the ODS , the TOP 09 and the government-loyal VV platform around the Deputy Prime Minister Karolína Peake voted unanimously for the government, and three of the MPs remaining in the VV parliamentary group, the non-attached MEP Pavel Bém and another from the ODS , voted -Faction resigned MPs for the government and thus secured their majority. The ministers and members of the government loyal to the government joined the LIDEM party, founded shortly afterwards by Karolína Peake , which renewed the coalition agreement.

Another government crisis occurred in autumn 2012 during budget deliberations. Six MPs from Prime Minister Nečas' ODS declared that they would not be able to support the budget due to planned tax increases. The government would no longer have a majority in the Chamber of Deputies. Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek then initially withdrew the budget on October 24, 2012. On October 31, 2012, one of these six MPs also formally resigned from the ODS parliamentary group. The government factions of the ODS, TOP 09 and LIDEM now only have 99 out of 200 seats in the House of Representatives. Ultimately, three of the five remaining MPs resigned from their parliamentary mandate, while two approved the reform package. Thanks to the support of some non-attached MPs, the government survived the vote of confidence associated with the controversial reform package with 101 votes to 93 on November 7, 2012.

The dismissal of Deputy Prime Minister Peake from the office of defense minister after just eight days sparked another government crisis. When she was released, Peake stated that it would be difficult to imagine LIDEM remaining in government. On January 3, 2013, the board of directors of LIDEM confirmed a resolution taken immediately after Peake's dismissal that the ministers remaining in the government should resign on January 10, 2013, but at the same time the board decided to pass an already announced motion of no confidence by the opposition against the Government not to support. At the same time, the board of directors was basically ready to talk about remaining in the coalition. On January 8, 2013, LIDEM revoked the resignation decision of its ministers. Instead, the LIDEM's whereabouts should be regulated in a renewed coalition agreement by the end of the month. The government successfully fended off the Social Democrats' motion of censure: 92 of the 200 MPs voted in favor of the motion of censure and 97 voted against, which meant that the 101 majority required for voting was not achieved.

Another government crisis broke out on June 13, 2013: A special anti-corruption department of the police raided rooms in the government office of the prime minister and, in addition to some influential lobbyists, took the office manager of the prime minister Jana Nagyová , the former agriculture minister Ivan Fuksa and the former chairman of the ODS in the House of Representatives Petr Tluchoř . Both belonged to the so-called “rebels” in the ODS, who in autumn 2012 did not support the Prime Minister's tax policy and resolved the conflict by resigning from their mandate. According to media reports, they then switched to lucrative supervisory board positions in state-owned companies. The context of the arrests initially remained unclear, but the opposition was already speaking of the greatest scandal of the last 20 years. However, the Prime Minister initially refused to resign. On the following day it became known that the office manager Nagyová was accused of abusing the military intelligence service to spy on the Prime Minister's wife. The prime minister had recently made his separation public. On June 16, 2013 Prime Minister Nečas announced his resignation for the following day as a result of this crisis. According to the constitution, the term of office of the entire government ends with his term of office.

Since June 17, 2013, the members of the Neča government were therefore only provisionally in office. Although the coalition agreed to continue the joint work under the President of the Chamber of Deputies Miroslava Němcová as the new Prime Minister, President Miloš Zeman instead gave Jiří Rusnok the mandate to form a government, despite the coalition's declaration by 101 (of 200) MPs in support of Němcová had submitted. The ministers of Rusnok's cabinet were sworn in on July 10, 2013, with which the previous incumbents left office.

minister

Nečas government, July 13, 2010 to July 10, 2013

Office	Surname	Political party
Prime Minister	Petr Nečas	ODS
Foreign Minister and Vice Prime Minister	Karel Schwarzenberg	TOP 09
Vice Prime Minister	Radek John until May 20, 2011 Karolína Peake since July 1, 2011	VV VV, from 2012 LIDEM
Interior minister	Radek John until April 21, 2011 Jan Kubice since April 22, 2011	VV independent
Finance minister	Miroslav Kalousek	TOP 09
Minister for Economy and Trade	Martin Kocourek until Nov. 14, 2011 Martin Kuba since Nov. 16, 2011	ODS ODS
Minister of Justice Head of the Legislative Council until July 1, 2011	Jiří Pospíšil until June 27, 2012 Pavel Blažek since July 3, 2012	ODS ODS
Minister for Labor and Social Affairs	Jaromír Drábek until October 31, 2012 Ludmila Müllerová from November 16, 2012	TOP 09 TOP 09
Minister of transport	Vít Bárta until April 21, 2011 Radek Šmerda until July 1, 2011 Pavel Dobeš since July 1, 2011 Zbyněk Stanjura since December 12, 2012	VV independent (for VV) VV, from 2012 LIDEM ODS
Minister of Health	Leoš Heger	TOP 09
Environment Minister	Pavel Drobil until December 21, 2010 Tomáš Chalupa since January 17, 2011	ODS ODS
Minister of Agriculture	Ivan Fuksa until October 4, 2011 Petr Bendl since October 6, 2011	ODS ODS
Minister of Culture	Jiří Besser until December 16, 2011 Alena Hanáková until June 30, 2013	TOP 09 independent (for TOP 09)
Defense Minister	Alexandr Vondra until December 7, 2012 Karolína Peake until December 20, 2012 Vlastimil Picek from March 19, 2013	ODS LIDEM independent
Minister for Regional Development	Kamil Jankovský	VV, from 2012 LIDEM
Minister for Education, Youth and Sport	Josef Dobeš until March 31, 2012 Petr Fiala since May 2, 2012	VV independent
Minister without portfolio and head of the Legislative Council from December 12, 2012	Petr Mlsna	independent (for LIDEM )

See also

• List of Prime Ministers of the Czech Republic

Individual evidence

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2. ^ Corruption affair: Czech Prime Minister announces resignation. In: Spiegel Online . June 16, 2013. Retrieved June 17, 2013 . 
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4. ↑ Nečasova vláda pokračuje Lidovky.cz, December 21, 2010
5. ↑ Markéta Kachlíková: After many scandals, voluntary resignation: Minister of Education Josef Dobeš Radio Prague, March 22, 2012, accessed on November 15, 2012
6. ↑ Justice Minister thrown out for laziness to save Spiegel online, June 27, 2012
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13. ^ Lothar Martin: Minister Kalousek: Can't rule with a partner who breaks the agreements Radio Prague, October 25, 2012
14. ↑ Till Janzer: Czech government loses reliable majority ( memento of the original from December 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Radio Prague, October 31, 2012 
15. ↑ Premier Necas survives the vote of confidence Spiegel online, November 7, 2012, accessed on November 15, 2012
16. ↑ [5] Spiegel online, December 20, 2012, accessed December 20, 2012
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18. ↑ [7] idnes.cz (Czech), January 8, 2013, accessed on January 8, 2013
19. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from July 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Radio Prague, January 18, 2013, accessed January 18, 2013 
20. ↑ Suspected corruption: Raid on the Czech government Spiegel online, June 13, 2013, accessed on June 13, 2013
21. ↑ Prime Minister Necas in Not www.derwesten.de, June 14, 2013, accessed on June 14, 2013