>> President Petr Pavel (right) appointed Petr Hladík (KDU-ČSL) as Minister of the Environment, March 10, 2023, Prague.
Prague – Today, the day after assuming the post of head of state, President Petr Pavel appointed KDU-ČSL vice-chairman Petr Hladík as Minister of the Environment. The previous president, Miloš Zeman, rejected the appointment at the beginning of the year, which the People's Party described as unconstitutional. The government has not been complete since the beginning of November, when Anna Hubáčková (for KDU-ČSL) left the Ministry of the Environment (MŽP) for health reasons.
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The People's Party proposed Hladík as minister last October, and they stuck with his nomination even after the police intervened in Hladík's office in the case of the allocation of city apartments in Brno. Prime Minister Petr Fiala (ODS) waited until the end of last year with the proposal in view of a possible shift in the case, but the police did not accuse Hladík of anything. Since November, Labor Minister Marian Jurečka (KDU-ČSL) has been in charge of managing the MoE..