Spring closing of Czech borders was unconstitutional

The chairman of the Constitutional Court Pavel Rychetsky shocked many people by declaring in an interview on Czech Television that the government's decision to close the borders during the first lockdown was unconstitutional. It's not the opinion itself that critics are now complaining about, but rather the place and the timing that Rychetsky used to make his views known. To put it bluntly, the time and the place to make such an announcement was in the spring and in court. But Rychetsky is defending himself and the court for not coming out against the lockdown at the time. He says the court can only act on the basis of a suit and that those people or organizations that filed official complaints did not do so in a way the Constitutional Court could use to declare the border closing as unconstitutional. "They were either against the restrictions, which had already been rescinded, or they were made by subjects who don't have the authoritization to do so and we had to refuse them," Rychetsky told Hospodarske noviny. In reality, he said the Constitutional Court would have been unable to affect the situation because the borders were opened long before any complaint against the measure could have been filed, heard and ruled upon.