Government Czech Republic survives parliament

The Czech parliament has early on Thursday morning agreed with the center-left minority government of Prime Minister Andrej Babis.

A debate preceded the vote in the two-hundred-seat parliament, which lasted sixteen hours. Meanwhile, hundreds of people protested. When Babis walked out on a given to talk to the demonstrators, he was pelted with water bottles.

Babis vowed to the parliamentarians that he is keeping the Czech Republic on a Western course. In the end, his government received the support of 105 of the 196 delegates present.