
The new Czech coalition government of Prime Minister Andrej Babiš faced a no-confidence vote on Tuesday over the handling of a dispute with President Petr Pavel.
The vote was requested by opposition parties backing Pavel, who accused Czech Deputy Prime Minister Petr Macinka of blackmailing him after he refused to appoint a minister from the right-wing and eurosceptic Motorists for Themselves party. Macinka is the leader of that party.