Interior minister: Ruling coalition will push bill on postal vote through Parliament next year

The ruling coalition is planning to push a bill on postal voting through Parliament next year, so that it will be in force in time for the 2025 parliamentary elections, Interior Minister Vít Rakušan said in an interview for Czech Radio. The two opposition parties in the lower house – ANO and the Freedom and Direct Democracy Party are both opposed to the bill, on the grounds of possible abuse, but the ruling coalition has a comfortable majority in both chambers.

Minister Rakušan said he expected a constitutional complaint from the opposition, but noted that in other countries, postal voting had been tried and tested in practice and had passed the scrutiny of constitutional courts.