Articles for author: Marek Antoš

Better Late than Never

On 2 February 2021, the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic repealed several crucial provisions of the electoral law. This decision is surprising since all of the previous petitions to repeal the electoral law were rejected by the Court for either procedural reasons or for manifest unfoundedness. The decision also presents a fairly active and, perhaps, unfortunately timed intervention of the judicial branch into the current political reality in the Czech Republic nine months before the upcoming election.

20. Februar 2021

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Czech Republic: High Treason or Just Constitutional Nudging?

The Czech President Václav Klaus has left office last Thursday (March 7) after a decade when his second term expired. Three days earlier, on March 4, he was indicted for high treason by the Senate, the second chamber of the Czech parliament. One might think this is just another scene from “Leaving”, the last absurdist play written by Klaus’s predecessor Václav Havel. It is not, however; and the proceeding before the Constitutional Court is pending. The Current Constitution of the Czech Republic (adopted in 1992) largely draws on democratic traditions of the interwar parliamentary regime in former Czechoslovakia. The provisions ... continue reading

12. März 2013

Czech Republic: High Treason or Just Constitutional Nudging?

The Czech President Václav Klaus has left office last Thursday (March 7) after a decade when his second term expired. Three days earlier, on March 4, he was indicted for high treason by the Senate, the second chamber of the Czech parliament. One might think this is just another scene from „Leaving„, the last absurdist play written by Klaus’s predecessor Václav Havel. It is not, however; and the proceeding before the Constitutional Court is pending. The Current Constitution of the Czech Republic (adopted in 1992) largely draws on democratic traditions of the interwar parliamentary regime in former Czechoslovakia. The provisions ... continue reading

12. März 2013