Postal voting not revolutionary, says Rakušan at start of debate

The minister of the interior, Vít Rakušan, says there is nothing revolutionary about the idea of introducing postal voting for Czechs living abroad. Speaking at the start of a debate on a government bill on the matter in the lower house on Wednesday morning, he said Czechia was one of the only states in the EU not to allow for such a form of voting.

The session may for a great many hours, with the opposition ANO and Freedom and Direct Democracy parties expected to filibuster; experts say the two groupings would likely receive a lower share of the vote among Czechs in other countries.