Press: far-right groups registered under false pretences

Two far-right groups the Workers’ Party and the National Party appear to have obtained registration at the interior ministry under false pretences, Mladá fronta Dnes reported. It said police were investigating the possibility that they used membership applications bearing fake signatures during the registration process. A lawyer told the newspaper it would be difficult to ban the far-right groups over false signatures. However, the interior ministry said that could prove useful if moves are made to outlaw them in future. A Czech court earlier this year turned down a government request to bar the Workers’ Party. The National Party was recently in the news over a pre-election advertisement promising the “final solution to the Gypsy problem”.