Senators also push to postpone Lisbon treaty vote

In related news, Civic Democratic senators said that they would also like to postpone any vote on the Lisbon treaty until various parliamentary committees had analysed the Czech Constitutional Court’s recent ruling on the document. The head of the Senate Přemysl Sobotka said on Tuesday that the upper house of Parliament would start discussing the treaty later in the week. The deputy chairman of the Senate, Civic Democrat Jiří Liška, said that those from within his own party would push to have this discussion adjourned. The Civic Democrats have 36 out of 81 seats in the Senate.