Klaus summons party leaders to Castle to discuss political situation

President Václav Klaus has invited the leaders of the two largest Czech political parties, the Social Democrats and the Civic Democrats, to Prague Castle on Wednesday to discuss the current political situation. On Tuesday afternoon, the president said he had called the meeting to resolve some of the biggest problems the country currently faced, namely working out next year’s budget and improving the country’s economic situation. Speaking in Ljubljana on Tuesday morning, the Czech president blamed the country’s Constitutional Court for the current ‘political chaos’ in the Czech Republic. After meeting his Slovenian counterpart Danilo Turk, Mr Klaus said that, regardless of the Social Democrats’ change in stance towards early elections, he did not believe that political parties were to blame for the current situation. Instead, he blamed the Constitutional Court, which ruled last week that early elections planned for October were not in line with Czech law.

Author: Rosie Johnston