Constitutional Engineering According to the Czech Custom or the Changes in the Competence of the Presidet of the Republic
2015
Abstract
The introduction of direct election of the president of the Czech Republic was an incentive to possible changes of the president's role in the Czech constitutional system. The author makes an analysis of the accesses to the changes of the Constitution after the first direct election in 2013, which signal an attempts to weaken the moderation aspect of the office of the president in favour of political leadership, and advises against non-conceptual efforts.
It is pointed out that any changes to the constitutional text have meaning only when there exist either a will to voluntarily follow the constitutional rules, or a pressure of the institutional surroundings, which makes the changes compulsory to follow.