The 41 Communist MPs' action deprived the opposition centre-right Civic Democrats of victory in their effort to bring Mr Gross down.
Czech President Vaclav Klaus has appointed Petr Necas, leader of the centre-right Civic Democrat party, as the country's new prime minister.
Two of them TOP 09, led by Karel Schwarzenberg, a Habsburg-tinged aristocrat and former foreign minister, and the more populist Public Matters are in coalition talks with the centre-right Civic Democrats.
The controversy over Klaus's re-election meant that when Petr Necas, the leader of the centre-right Civic Democrat party (ODS), was attempting to form a government after the 2010 parliamentary elections, several of his prospective coalition partners made their cooperation conditional on the new government making reform of the presidential election system part of its programme.
The centre-right opposition Civic Platform (PO) is strongly in favour of an early election and the centre-left Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) has also stated that it would like an early poll.
The other centre-right outfit, Civic Platform, gains support mainly among well-educated, better-off, urban voters.
The Freedom of the City is an honorary status and does not confer any special rights to the recipient other than the right to attend some ceremonial civic events.
The 9 a.m. speech, to 300 Charlotte businesspeople and civic leaders, worked out better than I had any right to expect.
The alliance includes Monti's Civic Choice for Monti, the Christian Democrats and a smaller centre-right party, Future and Freedom for Italy.
Professor BLAKELY: All right, the first thing that we have to do is put the civic infrastructure into the neighborhoods.
Poland's Law and Justice Party is socially to the right of most western conservatives (though, with the Czech Republic's Civic Democrats, it is an ally of Britain's Tories in the European Parliament).
Following elections last month, the right-wing TOP 09 and the centrist Public Affairs parties have been holding talks with the Civic Democrats.
Ian Bay, who was skateboarding through Civic Center Park when shots erupted, said he was listening to music on his headphones when he looked to his right and saw a swarm of hundreds of people running at him.
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