Posted on 10/10/2009 11:02:16 PM PDT by GOPGuide
If the president is obstructing the democratic process and opposing the decision of parliament as well as the will of the people, he is moving beyond the law and will need to face the consequences, a German diplomat told The Sunday Times.
Jiri Oberfalzer, a member of the Czech senate and Klauss closest ally, said Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, had already threatened the Czechs with expulsion from the EU.
Ideas of changing the constitution just to get rid of the president only shows how weak our young democracy is, said Oberfalzer, a Eurosceptic.
The political hot potato now lands in the hands of the caretaker government of Jan Fischer, the prime minister.
Under the Czech constitution a president can be impeached only if he commits high treason against the countrys independence or its territorial integrity and democratic order. It is highly unlikely that parliament would pass such a measure under Fischers interim government.
There are other hurdles. The treaty has been approved by the Czech parliament but senators loyal to Klaus have lodged three challenges with the constitutional court, which has rejected two and is widely expected to follow suit with the third.
Opponents of the treaty hope that Klaus will be able to stall ratification until the British general election in May. David Cameron, the Tory leader, has promised a referendum if his party wins and the treaty is still unsigned.
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I thought I was getting a history lesson, with a dateline: Berlin 11 October 1939.
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Time to settle the Sudeten question?
But the joke's on them...the *Soviet* Union is BACK!
The Germans are just looking for a little Lebensraum, nothing wrong with that. They are confident that the new EU will bring peace in our time, and under Sharia Law to boot.
The Germans are going to piss off Obama. No country is supposed to dominate another country. That’s why we are trying destroy Honduras’ government also.
LOVE your tagline!!!
The Germans have it in for the Czechs. Ever since they marched into the Sudetenland...
Yup. He ought to be a real Nobel Prize winner in my opinion.
“Is Klaus the guy who said man made global warming is a hoax?
Yup. He ought to be a real Nobel Prize winner in my opinion.”
Yes - he sounds like one of the very few intelligent leaders in Europe. In Mark Steyn’s book “America Alone” he says the European governing elite spend their time being straitjackets for their people whom they think have the same base instincts that committed WWII and its atrocities. They’re fighting the forties war in the 21st Century, while the Muslims gradually take over Europe.
Czechoslovakia is a dagger aimed at the heart of Germay.
It's exactly what the Germans did to Czechoslovakia in March 1939, when Hitler flew in President Hacha and screamed at and browbeat him until Hacha signed away his country's independence.
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