Czech European Constitution referendum

The Czech referendum on the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe was expected to take place in 2006 to decide whether the Czech Republic should ratify the proposed Constitution of the European Union. Following the rejection of the Constitution by voters in France and the Netherlands, the Czech government announced that the proposed referendum would not be held.

The Czech Social Democrats, Christian Democrats and Green Party were strongly in favour of European integration, and campaigned in support of the proposed Constitution, but President Václav Klaus was an outspoken eurosceptic, and refused to sign the constitutional treaty in October 2004 (most countries, however, did not send their head of state to sign). Opposition Civic Democratic Party opposed the Constitution.^[1] The referendum was expected to be legally binding on the government.