Presidential candidate Tomio Okamura, disqualified from running in the
upcoming election by a Supreme Administrative Court decision, has said he
will file a legal complaint with the Constitutional Court. The senator
made clear he would take the step after the Christmas
holidays. Mr Okamura has taken issue with the decision, not least over
words by one of the justices, Vojtěch Šimička, who said the candidate
had the most falsified names on a list of supporters in his candidacy bid.
For candidates to register they needed to gather 50,000 signatures to run.
Mr Okamura finished
below the 50,000 needed, after discrepancies were found.
According to the justice, many of the names were written in the same
handwriting. Mr Okamura has responded by saying voters’ rights were
being
trampled on. Another candidate who was rejected, former finance minister
Vladimír Dlouhý, meanwhile, has not taken a final decision on his next
step.