According to the original plan, the minister was supposed to return to Prague later. In New York, he was supposed to participate in bilateral negotiations at the UN until Monday. From there, he was supposed to move to Washington, where he was supposed to participate in the meeting of the global coalition against ISIL.
Fiala announced on Tuesday that he has decided to propose the dismissal of Deputy Prime Minister for Digitization and Minister for Regional Development Ivan Bartoš (Pirates) on September 30. Bartoš called it a betrayal considering that he had discussed with the prime minister a few hours earlier and Fiala had not indicated anything of the sort to him.
He confirmed to the Prime Minister at the cabinet meeting on Wednesday that the Pirates are ending the government, although party members have been voting on it for several days now.
The head of diplomacy already said in New York on Tuesday that he would leave the Pirates because he would not be able to sign everything that was said at the then press conference of the party in the House of Representatives.
For example, deputy Olga Richterová said that the weak prime minister succumbed to the godfathers. According to the leader of the pirate deputies, Jakub Michálek, part of the civil democrats pressured the prime minister to dismiss Bartoš, even with words about his end. He named the ministers Martin Kupka, Zbyňek Stanjura, the governor of the South Bohemian Region Martin Kuba and the deputy speaker of the Chamber Jan Skopeček. They all rejected it.
