Government to ask Supreme Court to outlaw Workers’ Party

The Czech government will ask the Supreme Court to outlaw the far-right Workers’ Party on the grounds of its undemocratic statutes and activities, the minister for ethnic minorities and human rights, Dzamila Stehlikova said on Monday. The move has come in the wake of the country’s worst neo-Nazi violence in the town of Litvinov and is said to have received strong backing from the prime minister. The leader of the extreme right Workers’ Party Tomáš Vandas said that there are no legal grounds for such a decision and told the media that if the party were outlawed it would simply re-emerge under a new name.