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Specifically, these are the exit restrictions for the population and the closure of retail trade. The judges decided that the measures should have been passed as emergency laws, not as extraordinary ordinances of the Ministry of Health.
Prime Minister Andrej Babis’s government has until Monday to catch up, a court spokeswoman for the German Press Agency said Thursday. The decision, which applies throughout the country, will only be final.
“Arbitrary, chaotic, poorly founded”
The judges argued that a single ministry does not have the competence to make decisions of this rank. Even in the current situation, the rules of the rule of law would have to be observed. A lawyer and health law specialist sued, criticizing the regulations as arbitrary, chaotic, and ill-founded.
The judges are fully responsible for the consequences of their decision on the health and life of the population, said a spokesman for President Milos Zeman of the CTK agency. There were 7,136 confirmed coronavirus infections in the Czech Republic as of Thursday. According to the Ministry of Health, 210 deaths have been related to the viral disease.
