Media: Latest Pavel nominee for top court unlikely to win Senate backing

President Petr Pavel’s latest nominee for the post of Constitutional Court justice, Pavel Simon, is unlikely to be approved by the Senate, Novinky.cz reported on Thursday.

Mr. Simon is due to face a grilling in the Czech upper house on October 18. Senators are planning to ask him about rulings of his that were overturned by the Constitutional Court as well as his business activities and new age “school”, the news site said.

A legislator from government leaders the Civic Democrats told Novinky that senators had “woken up” and would not make the same mistake after previously approving Robert Fremr for the court. He later withdrew his nomination after criticism in the media.