Const. Court rejects complaint against Zeman not naming professor

The Constitutional Court (US) rejected the complaint by physicist Ivan Ostadal and Charles University against alleged inactivity of Czech President Milos Zeman who did not appoint Ostadal professor, US judge rapporteur Vojtech Simicek said on Monday. The US said Zeman was not inactive since he wrote in a letter to then education minister Katerina Valachova in January 2016 that he would not appoint Ostadal and two other candidates professors. The complaint about inactivity thus must be rejected, Simicek said. Lower level courts previously arrived at the same conclusion. Simicek said Zeman's decision not to appoint Ostadal may be challenged with an administrative court, but the correct type of complaint needs to be filed.