Ten weeks after the parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic, the country's president Vaclav Klaus has appointed a new prime minister - Mirek Topolanek - but analysts suggest the political crisis in Prague is far from over.
Mr Topolanek's center-right Civic democrats patry (ODS) won the elections in early June but failed to get a sufficient majority combined with other right-leaning parties to form a ruling coalition that would be able to get through parliament.
Under the cur...
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