Minister's resignation would wake up the Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is threatened with over-indebtedness after the left parties in parliament acted against the will of the independent caretaker government and inflated the budget for the coming year with additional social expenditures. Finance Minister Eduard Janota considered tendering his resignation in reaction. The conservative daily Lidové Noviny regrets that he will nevertheless probably remain in office: "It would be a fine thing if Finance Minister Eduard Janota announced his resignation. But on television he has already been saying how he wants to reduce government expenditures. That's not how people talk when they're about to resign . ... Janota is one of the few people who are actually doing something against indebtedness. If the popular minister walked out and slammed the door shut behind him, that would be a fittingly drastic way of reacting to the dramatic growth of the public debt."

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