Candidate challences postponement of elections

Lawyer Ondrej Lnenicka, a candidate nominated by the Civic Democratic Party for the elections to the Chamber of Deputies, on Friday lodged a constitutional complaint against the Czech Constitutional Court's decision to postpone early elections on the grounds of a complaint from unaffiliated deputy Milos Melcak. Melcak claims the constitutional amendment by which the Chamber of Deputies shortened its term had violated his right to execute his mandate for four years. Reacting to Melcak's complaint analogically, Lnenicka said that by postponing the elections indefinitely his right to be elected would be curtailed as he himself was running for the Chamber of Deputies.