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Czech President Zeman sacks two ministers

Xinhua, November 23, 2016 Adjust font size:

Czech President Milos Zeman sacked on Tuesday two ministers -- Health Minister Svatopluk Nemecek and Human Rights Minister Jiri Dienstbier, who will be replaced on Nov. 30, said Zeman's spokesman Jiri Ovcacek.

He said Zeman and Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka agreed the date of replacement of the two ministers recently.

Ovcacek said Zeman will meet the outgoing Health Minister Nemecek on Nov. 30.

Zeman met on Tuesday Nemecek's successor, Prague-Motol University Hospital director Miloslav Ludvik, later the same day, he met lawmaker Jan Chvojka, who is to replace Dienstbier.

Nemecek and Dienstbier will leave the cabinet on the proposal of Sobotka as of Nov. 30.

Sobotka announced these two changes in the lineup of his cabinet on Nov. 11, following the October regional and Senate elections in which his Social Democrats failed.

Sobotka said he expects the personnel changes to make the cabinet's work more dynamic and effective in the last year before the general election. Endit