PRAGUE, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- The Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Czech parliament, on Thursday dismissed a request to bring charges against President Milos Zeman for allegedly violating the constitution.

Only 58 out of the 130 MPs present voted in favor of the draft lawsuit, while at least 120 votes, a three-fifth majority, were needed for it to be filed with the Constitutional Court.

Members of the ANO party, the Social Democrats (CSSD), the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSCM), and the Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) party, who have a comfortable majority in the Chamber of Deputies, voted against the proposal. They said the lawsuit was unfounded. MEPs spent most of the day discussing the proposal.

Parliament's upper house, the Senate, which is controlled by the opposition, agreed with the charges in July. But the proposal would have needed the lower house's approval to be sent to the Constitutional Court. Enditem

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