Interior Ministry days there are no legal grounds for Communist party ban

The Interior Ministry will not support a proposal by a group of senators for the Communist party to be outlawed. The ministry said there were no legal grounds on the basis of which it could support the motion. It pointed out that over the past twenty years the Communist party has become firmly established on the Czech political scene, had not violated the law in any way and had always distanced itself from right-wing extremism. The ministry’s recommendation will now go to the government, but analysts predict that efforts to get the Communist party banned twenty years after the fall of communism stand little chance of success.