On Tuesday 2 May, the Czech Prime Minister, Bohuslav Sobotka, announced his resignation and that of his cabinet, after tension mounted between him and his finance minister, Andrej Babiš, whom he suspects of tax fraud.
“I will soon, probably this week, tender my resignation to President Miloš Zeman. It is unacceptable that Babiš remains in the finance minister post”, Sobotka announced (our translation). Babiš, a billionaire businessman, is the head of the centrist movement ANO and...