Sources: actualne.cz and Czech Republic public holidays. Earlier this week, in the culmination of a long process that we first reported on in our news post of November 3, 2006, the upper chamber of Czech parliament passed a draft law abolishing some of the traditional public holidays which senators considered either historically obsolete or outright alien.These are mostly leftover, grandstanding but hollow, public holidays from the 50 years of communist occupation of Czechoslovakia, namely International Women's Day which would be cancelled as would Family Day and the Day of Knowledge. In a similar vein, Labor Day (May 1) would be renamed as Spring and Labor Day.
The proposal now goes to the Chamber of Deputies (lower house of Parliament) where it may face more adversity as the house is split equally between the leftist and rightist forces unlike the Senate where the conservatives have comfortable majority. We will continue to monitor and report on further developments.
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