President Zeman announces names of four candidates for Constitutional Court

President Miloš Zeman has announced the names of four lawyers he plans to nominate to the Constitutional Court. Speaking on a visit to the country’s highest court in Brno on Tuesday, Mr. Zeman said he would ask the Senate to approve the candidates Milada Tomková, who is a judge at the Supreme Administrative Court, and law professors Jaroslav Fenyk, Vladimír Sládeček and Jan Filip. The president said he had discussed the names with the chief justice, Pavel Rychetský. He also said he wished to see next parliamentary elections take place on the same day as elections to the European Parliament in May next year.