Senators considering new complaint against Lisbon treaty

Senators from the ruling Civic Democratic Party are considering filing a new constitutional complaint against the Lisbon treaty, if the upper house of Parliament approves it in a vote due on May 6th. Senator Jiří Oberfalzer of the Civic Democrats said he would back the complaint since he was convinced the treaty would harm the country’s interests. The senator said he feared the worst, since the outgoing Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek had secured the votes required for the treaty’s approval. Civic Democrat senators lodged a complaint about the treaty with the Constitutional Court last year, but failed to do more than delay its ratification since the court ruled that the Lisbon treaty was in line with the Constitution of the Czech Republic.