PM: some Senators in too much of a hurry to ratify Istanbul Convention

The Istanbul Convention would have had a better chance of being adopted if there had been a more thorough and wider societal debate, Prime Minister Petr Fiala told Czech tabloid Blesk on Thursday. In his opinion, some of the government coalition partners were in too much of a hurry to get it ratified, and it was not approved in the Senate on Wednesday evening by a very narrow margin, only two votes short of adoption.

The Christian Democrats voted overwhelmingly against ratifying the convention, the Pirates and Mayors and Independents parties were mostly in favour, while the prime minister's own Civic Democrat party was divided.