Pavel Rychetsk News Today

Historian Muriel Blaive returns once more to her - somewhat shocking - experience with the supposedly scholarly  Prague-based "Institute for the Study of Tot...

Wasn’t the jurist who erased in December 1989 the article defining the leading role of the communist party in the Czechoslovak constitution the very same Pav...

Baku, February 25, AZERTAC Chairman of Azerbaijan’s Constitutional Court Farhad Abdullayev has attended the meeting of the Circle of Presidents of the Conference of European Constitutional Courts (CECC) and 18th Congress of the CECC hosted by the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic in an online format, press service of the Constitutional Court told AZERTAC. The meeting of the Circle of Presidents discussed the signing of a memorandum between the Association of Asian Constitutional Cour...

The political landscape in the Czech Republic is set to shift immensely. The Constitutional Court on Wednesday announced it has annulled aspects of electoral law favouring bigger political parties, including the distribution of seats and thresholds of voter support coalitions must achieve to enter Parliament. Lawmakers must now rush to agree amendments ahead of the election in October. Proportional representation systems aim to allocate seats to parties approximately in proportion to the number...

Prime Minister Andrej Babiš launched a stinging attack on the Constitutional Court after it made a ruling on the electoral law that will make it easier for coalitions for parties to stand together in general elections. Mr. Babiš told journalists that the court was attempting to influence politics and would shake people’s faith in the constitutional system. The PM accused the court’s chief justice, Pavel Rychetský, of being biased and called on him to say whether he would stand for presid...