The Senate (Upper House) voted to refer the President to the constitutional court to rule on whether he had violated the constitution with a New Year amnesty(To mark the country's 20th anniversary of independence on January 1, Vaclav Klaus used a traditional tool of Czech presidents and ordered the release of more than 6 000 inmates serving short prison terms)
38 Senators in the 81-seat house, controlled by the left-wing opposition, voted to impeach the president, with 30 voting against
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