Senate committees fail to back Pavel candidate for Constitutional Court

President Petr Pavel’s latest candidate for Constitutional Court justice, Pavel Simon, will evidently not be appointed to the country’s highest court. Two separate Senate committees discussing the matter on Wednesday failed to support his candidacy; only one of five members of the Human Rights Committee backed him.

Mr. Simon is due to face a grilling in the upper house next week, with legislators reportedly planning to raise rulings of his that were overturned by the Constitutional Court, as well as his business activities and new age “school”.