Constitutional Court chairman: more cuts would negatively impact functioning

Further cuts in the budget of the Czech Constitutional Court would affect the efficiency of its decision-making and decrease the standard of human rights protection, the court’s chairman Pavel Rychetský has said, following a meeting with the prime minister on Monday. Prime Minister Petr Nečas agreed after they met that the court was currently extended to its absolute limits, pointing out that it received some 3,500 petitions per year. As a result, the government is looking for ways to relieve the workload through possible systemic changes. The Justice Minister Jiří Pospíšil has said one of the options could be the court not being obliged to justify all resolutions - rejecting complaints without proceedings, for instance, in cases where there were formal shortcomings.

Author: Jan Velinger