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Czech government steps down

Czech centre-right prime minister Mirek Topolanek has handed in his cabinet's resignation following last week's failure to win a confidence vote in parliament.

Speaking to journalists after his government formally stepped down on Wednesday (11 October), the leader of the Czech conservative civic democrats party (ODS) suggested the best way out of the months' long political deadlock would be early elections.

"That is a solution which should be acceptable to everybody," he noted, ac...

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