Communist Party may take government-reform bills to court

The Communist Party says it may join the Social Democrats in filing a complaint with the Constitutional Court regarding the government proposed reforms should they make it through Parliament. Deputy party leader Jiri Dolejs has criticized the plan to introduce fees for medical services saying it violates that article of the Constitution which guarantees free medical care on the basis of insurance. The leader of the opposition Social Democrats Jiri Paroubek has promised to strike down what he called "bad fiscal reforms" as soon as his party returned to power. He said that the centre right government's reform plan would lower the living standard of 90 percent of Czechs.