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Andrej Babiš: His party ANO had lost the parliamentary elections
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The decision on an indictment against the incumbent Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš in the so-called stork's nest affair has been delayed.
The reason for this is that the 67-year-old's immunity to MPs was renewed with the parliamentary elections at the beginning of October.
The public prosecutor's office wants to request that the politician's protection from criminal prosecution be lifted, as a spokesman announced on Wednesday in Prague.
However, this could happen after the first session of the new House of Representatives on November 8th at the earliest.
Multibillionaire Babiš probably sneaked subsidies for small businesses
The affair is about the alleged fraudulent exploitation of EU subsidies in the millions for the wellness resort "Storchennest". The funds were actually intended for small and medium-sized companies. The multi-billionaire Babiš is the founder of a corporate empire with more than 200 individual companies. He repeatedly emphasizes that the funding has already been paid back. The investigation has been going on for around six years.
In the parliamentary elections at the beginning of October, the liberal-conservative opposition won a clear majority of 108 of the 200 seats in the House of Representatives.
Babiš's populist ANO had 72 seats.
Negotiations about a new government are overshadowed by concerns about the health of President Milos Zeman, who has been in hospital for a week and a half.
The head of state gives the order to form a government.
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