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Coalition hangs on to power CZECH REPUBLIC: Prime Minister Petr Necas’s austerity coalition narrowly survived a confidence vote at the weekend.
Just 105 members of the 200-seat lower house backed the Civic Democrat-TOP 09 administration, which is propped up by a small breakaway faction of the corruption-tainted Public Affairs party — 93 legislators voted against.
Opposition Social Democrat leader Bohuslav Sobotka said: “The government might get a majority in today’s vote of confidence, but its legitimacy according to normal democratic society is another matter.”
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