Czech parties agree coalition deal as president remains in hospital

No new details about president Miloš Zeman’s condition as centrist and centre-right parties reach power-sharing agreement

Czech centrist and centre-right parties reached an agreement on forming a majority coalition government and its key agenda, the chairman of the strongest party in the new coalition said.

The five-party coalition faces elevated inflation, mounting debt, an economy curbed by a global shortage of semiconductors and surging energy prices, and a resurgent Covid-19 pandemic which has been gathering pace in recent weeks.

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