ABSTRACT
The chapter deals with the issue of accountability of Central European presidents. All in all, they can be quite sure that they will serve the entirety of their term in office once elected as they may be recalled only for a relatively limited number of reasons. Also, the formal procedures make successful recall difficult. The constitutional practice has shown that serious initiatives to recall the president were very few and far between, and even in the Czech Republic, where several attempts were made to recall Presidents Klaus and Zeman, the initiatives had little chance of succeeding from the beginning. On the other hand, the importance of the procedures that allow the recalling of the president resides in their preventive and symbolic function. In the Czech Republic, it served as a tool to publicly point out and put a stop to any unacceptable behavior by the president and, consequently, to delineate the scope of the constitutionally acceptable role of the president.
