Czech president to appoint new ministers on April 30

Czech president to appoint new ministers on April 30
FILE PHOTO: Czech President Milos Zeman gestures in Vienna, Austria April 3, 2019. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger Copyright LEONHARD FOEGER(Reuters)
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PRAGUE (Reuters) - Czech President Milos Zeman will appoint Karel Havlicek, the head of a small business association and deputy chief of the government's science and research council, as new industry minister on April 30, a spokesman said on Monday.

The president will also appoint lawyer Vladimir Kremlik as new transport minister, replacing Dan Tok who resigned after serving more than four years, a record tenure for the transport post.

Havlicek's main tasks will be regulating the telecoms market and preparing a project to boost the European Union country's nuclear power capacity.

Both ministries are controlled by Prime Minister Andrej Babis's ANO party, which leads the coalition government.

(Reporting by Robert Muller; Editing by Frances Kerry)

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