Czech Republic Government Vote of No Confidence, 2009 Fischer was appointed in May 2009. Czech Republic Government Vote of No Confidence, 2009 The Parliament of the Czech Republic vote of no confidence in the Czech Republic government of the Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek was held on 24 March 2009. It was the first time since dissolution of Czechoslovakia that Czech government lost vote of No Confidence. Vote was held during Czech Presidency of the Council of the European Union in 2009. 101 MPs voted for the motion of Noc Confidence. Some MPs of governing coalition voted for the motion. It includes Vlastimil Tlustý, Jan Schwippel, Věra Jakubková and
Prime Minister of Australia becomes acting Prime Minister in those circumstances. Three Prime Ministers have died in office – Joseph Lyons (1939), John Curtin (1945) and Harold Holt (1967). In each of these cases, the Deputy Prime Minister (an unofficial office at the time) became an interim Prime Minister, pending an election of a new leader of the government party. In none of these cases was the interim Prime Minister successful at the subsequent election. As of , there are seven living former Australian Prime Ministers. The greatest number of living former Prime Ministers at any one time was eight. This has occurred twice: