The

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, led by

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Jan Fischer, was a

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established after Mirek Topolánek and his government lost

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in the

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History

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, an

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, was chosen as non-party candidate for the office of

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s were recommended by Civic Democratic Party,

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and

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firstly supported the idea of establishing a temporary government until the next legislative election takes place.

Jiří Čunek Jiří Čunek (born 22 February 1959) is a Czech politician who was the leader of the Christian and Democratic Union - Czechoslovak People's Party from December 2006 to May 2009. Čunek was also deputy prime minister and the minister for Regio ...

, leader of the

, later announced that his party would not nominate any candidate to this government but was willing to support it if they approve the

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's programme. Regardless the decision of the presidium of the party,

Miroslav Kalousek Miroslav Kalousek (born 17 December 1960) is a Czech politician, former leader of KDU-ČSL and TOP 09, and a member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) from 1998 until his resignation in 2021. He served twice as Finance Minister in the cabinets of Mir ...

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and four other MPs, declared that they support new

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. Overally Civic Democrats nominated 6 Ministers and Prime Minister, Social Democrats 8 Ministers and Greens 2 Ministers. Jan Fischer was named

on 9 April 2009. The rest of his cabinet was named on 8 May 2009. According to the

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, Fischer and his cabinet have to survive

in the

in 30 days.

Government ministers

References

{{Reflist Czech government cabinets Civic Democratic Party (Czech Republic) Czech Social Democratic Party Green Party (Czech Republic) Coalition governments of the Czech Republic Caretaker governments