WARSAW, March 6 - RAPSI. The Czech Constitutional Court has appointed a reporting judge on the Senate's treason complaint against President Vaclav Klaus, Czech news agency CTK announced on Wednesday, citing the court's head of protocol Vlastimil Goettinger.

Last Monday, the upper house of the Czech parliament voted 38-30 for submitting a treason complaint against the outgoing president, Vaclav Klaus, to the country's Constitutional Court. The complaint was forwarded to the court on Tuesday.

The Senate's actions were prompted by an amnesty granted by President Klaus on January 1 in honor of the country's 20th independence anniversary which will free nearly one-third of all prison inmates (around 6,500 people) and halt the prosecution of prominent business executives and officials charged with bribery and fraud.

The Senate, which is dominated by the president's left-wing political opponents, also claims that Mr. Klaus deferred the signing of laws and the appointment of judges to the Constitutional Court.

Mr. Goettinger said that Jan Musil had been appointed the reporting judge and that the court would forward the Senate's complaint to President Klaus on Wednesday. "The document will be delivered to Prague Castle by a representative of the Constitutional Court," Mr. Goettinger said.

The court is expected to make a decision on this case by the end of March. Czech analysts note that the Senate's decision is purely political in nature, since the second term of President Klaus ends on March 7. The country's next president, Milos Zeman, former Prime Minister and head of the Citizens Rights Party, will be inaugurated in Prague Castle on March 8.