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Citizens on the constitutional competencies of president

According to the January survey of CVVM, 58 % of the Czech public agree with the current range of presidential competencies, 20 % would welcome their enlargement, 17 % would narrow them down.

CVVM also asked questions about several particular presidential competencies such as granting of amnesty, stopping a lawsuit, dismissing the Chamber of Deputies and furthermore about the competence of president to refuse the law passed by the parliament and about his or her role in appointing the board of the Czech National Bank and in appointing the judges of the Constitutional Court.

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