US EditionPresident Pavel Refuses To Appoint Turek as Environment Minister
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President Petr Pavel has distanced himself from the words of the chairman of the Motorists and Minister of Foreign Affairs Petr Macinka. The leader of the Motorists commented on Wednesday that Pavel refused to appoint the Motorists candidate Filip Turk as Minister of the Environment. When asked whether he was considering a competency lawsuit, Macinka replied that perhaps the president himself wanted this lawsuit. According to Macinka, the consti…
Filip Turek of the ultra-right-wing motorist party is not a member of the government. He was accused of racism, homophobia and sexism due to various statements. President Petr Pavel finally rejected Turek's appointment in Prague on Wednesday at a New Year's dinner with Prime Minister Andrej Babiš.
Prague - If the government does not want to resolve the dispute with President Petr Pavel over the appointment of Motorists' MP Filip Turk as Minister of the Environment by means of a competence lawsuit, it does not have many options left, according to lawyers and political scientists. Constitutional lawyer Jan Kysela from the Faculty of Law of Charles University mentioned a constitutional lawsuit due to a gross violation of the constitutional o…
President Petr Pavel has distanced himself from the words of the leader of the Motorists' Party and Minister of Foreign Affairs Petr Macinka, who, according to Hrad, questioned the impartiality of constitutional judges on Czech Television on Wednesday. Pavel called it a political foul. Macinka said, among other things, that Pavel wants to file a lawsuit over the failure to appoint Filip Turk as Minister of the Environment, so that the Constituti…
If Prime Minister Andrej Babiš ultimately tries to overcome the president's possible failure to appoint Filip Turk as Minister of the Environment by filing a competency lawsuit, it would be the first such legal dispute between a prime minister and a head of state in our post-November history. (That would be a proposal...
President Pavel Refuses To Appoint Turek as Environment Minister
President Petr Pavel yesterday refused to appoint Motorists MP Filip Turek as environment minister, Prime Minister Andrej Babis (ANO) said after his New Year’s lunch with Pavel at Prague Castle. The Prime Minister added that he is not considering a competence lawsuit against Pavel. At the lunch, Babis again submitted the nomination of Turek to the President, based on a previous agreement with the Motorists, one of ANO’s two junior coalition part…
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