ANO to take pension reform bill to highest court

MPs from ANO say they will challenge government legislation restricting early retirement and slowing pension increases at the Constitutional Court. They made the announcement after a meeting of the opposition party’s parliamentary group on Monday evening. ANO’s Alena Schillerová said the petition could be filed by the end of October.

Ms. Schillerová said the government’s bills were illegitimate for two reasons: the overriding of usual procedure in the lower house, and breaching the principle of expectation in the case of the regulations on early retirement.

A lower house debate on the government amendments, currently in the second reading, is expected to run for some days.