Pecina: Interior Ministry to try to outlaw Workers’ Party once more

The Czech government will again attempt to outlaw the far-right Workers’ Party, Interior Minister Martin Pecina said in an interview with Czech Television on Sunday. Mr Pecina said that his ministry would file a complaint against the party as soon as it legally could. After an unsuccessful attempt to have the party outlawed brought by Mr Pecina’s predecessor, Ivan Langer, and thrown out in March, the government must wait for six months until they can try again. Mr Langer’s case for the banning of the party was thrown out by the Supreme Administrative Court in Brno. After the verdict, court officials working on the case said that the government’s arguments for outlawing the party had not been sufficiently prepared.