Czech president files competency lawsuit against cabinet
Czech President Petr Pavel said on June 23 he has filed a competency lawsuit against the government after it snubbed him as the Czech representative at next month’s NATO summit.
Pavel has attended all NATO summits since taking office in 2023, just like all his predecessors since Vaclav Havel in 1999 when the Czech Republic joined the alliance.
But the nationalist government of billionaire Prime Minister Andrej Babis decided on June 22 that the former NATO general will stay at home for the summit in Ankara next month.
Babis said he himself would go to Ankara with the foreign and defense ministers instead.
