Court rejects government call to ban far-right Workers’ Party

The Supreme Administrative Court has rejected a government proposal to ban the Workers’ Party. The government says the small far-right grouping contains extremists and is attempting to subvert democracy. However, the court said the government had failed to prove claims of a connection with the neo-Nazi group National Resistance, or that the Workers’ Party was trying to change the political system by violent means.

The Workers’ Party came to national attention last year when members fought with police after being prevented from marching on a largely Romany district in the town of Litvínov in north Bohemia.