ANO take change to early retirement rules to top court

ANO have filed a legal challenge to the government’s pension reforms at the Constitutional Court. The opposition party are taking issue with changes to early retirement rules, saying that a transition period of 13-months was subsequently dropped from the original legislation approved by the government.

ANO MP Alena Schillerová, who delivered the petition to the court in Brno in person on Wednesday, said the change meant citizens had insufficient time weigh to up whether to take early retirement.

The new legislation is part of a raft of government measures aimed at cutting the public debt.