Czech Prime Minister Stanislav Gross has survived a parliamentary no-confidence vote. The coalition government was in crisis amid a row over the Czech premier's personal finances. Gross was left relying on the support of the opposition Communist party. The parliamentary crisis was precipitated by one of Mr Gross's centre-left coalition partners, the Christian Democrats, who walked out in protest against his financial affairs. They included revelations that his wife's business partner rents out a building to a brothel. But his party Social Democrats might lose their only remaining coalition partner, the right-wing Freedom Union-Democratic Union. Gross will now lead a minority government propped up by the largely unreformed Communists.

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