Overview
- President Petr Pavel swore in ministers at Prague Castle and urged constructive governance.
- Portfolio control was divided with ANO taking eight ministries, SPD three, and the Motorists four.
- Andrej Babiš said the European Commission should find other ways to finance Ukraine, declaring that Prague will provide no guarantees and no money.
- Retired Major General Jaromír Žůna became defence minister on an SPD nomination, and Motorists politician Petr Macinka took the foreign ministry while temporarily overseeing environment.
- Environmental activists protested the environment handover by scaling the ministry building in Prague’s Vršovice district, and Babiš said he will place his Agrofert holding into a trust to address conflict-of-interest rules.