PRAGUE, May 5 (Reuters) - Eduard Janota has been nominated to become Czech finance minister in incoming Prime Minister Jan Fischer's caretaker government, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
Agreement from political parties over the new finance minister, tasked with controlling a ballooning deficit in a recession, has been an obstacle to forming Fischer's government, which is to lead the EU presidency country to October elections.
President Vaclav Klaus is set to appoint the new cabinet on May 8 and it should take office the following day.
The following are nominees proposed for key ministerial posts:
* FINANCE MINISTER
Eduard Janota, 57, deputy finance minister, should take over from Miroslav Kalousek.
Janota started working at the ministry's state budget division in 1978 and has been there since. He is known to have had a hand in every state budget since 1992 when he became a director of the budget department.
Janota first became a deputy minister in 1999 and is not a member of any political party. He will have to tackle a public budget deficit that is seen at least tripling this year to 4.5 percent of gross domestic product.
He will also draw up a 2010 budget that many analysts say could widen the fiscal gap as parties make large spending promises in the run-up to October elections.
* EUROPEAN AFFAIRS MINISTER
Stefan Fuele, 46, the Czech ambassador to NATO, has been nominated to take over from Alexandr Vondra.
Fuele is a long-serving diplomat. He was ambassador to Britain between 2003 and 2005. In 1990-1995 he was the first secretary of the permanent mission to the United Nations. He was a member of a Security Council delegation.
In the late 1990s he led the Czech Republic's NATO accession talks.
* FOREIGN MINISTER
Deputy Foreign Minister Jan Kohout, 48, has been nominated to replace Karel Schwarzenberg.
Between May 2004 and September 2007 Kohout worked as permanent representative of the Czech Republic to the EU. Before that he worked at the foreign ministry as a secretary for European affairs and the first deputy to the minister.
Between 1995 and 2000 he was a deputy to the head of a permanent mission of the Czech Republic to the United Nations and to the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
He is a member of the leftist opposition Social Democrats.
*Other nominees include Deputy Defence Minister Martin Bartak who should take over the defence ministry, and Deputy Transport Minister Gustav Slamecka nominated to take the helm of the Transport Ministry. The head of electricity transmission operator CEPS, Vladimir Tosovsky, is proposed to lead the industry and trade ministry.
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