Filip rejects move by senators seeking dissolution of Communist Party

The head of the Communist Party Vojtěch Filip has said that senators failed to follow proper protocol in the upper house this week in a decision to ask the government to take steps regarding the constitutional status of the Communist Party. Mr Filip said that rendered the move “illegitimate”. 30 out of 38 senators present on Thursday voted to address the government to ask to the Constitutional Court to examine whether the party is in violation of the constitution. A several-hundred page report argues that the party has failed to officially reject violence as a means of achieving political goals. Senators have also charged that the Communist Party has not broken ideologically with its criminal predecessor, KSČ. Mr Filip called the document focussing on his party “legally irrelevant”.