Czech president appoints new PM in ceremony behind glass
by Reuters in Prague from World news | The Guardian on (#5SE9W)
Milos Zeman performs inauguration ceremony from cubicle after testing positive for coronavirus
The Czech president, Milos Zeman, has appointed the leader of a centre-right alliance, Petr Fiala, as prime minister in a ceremony he performed from a plexiglass cubicle after testing positive for Covid-19.
Fiala leads a bloc of five centre and centre-right opposition parties that won an election in October, ousting the incumbent Andrej Babi and his allies.
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