Communists amended the constitutional law to remove President Ludvík Svoboda
The penultimate communist president, Ludvík Svoboda, was already seriously ill at the beginning of May 1974 and wanted to abdicate. New candidates were already being considered, among whom Gustav Husák was preferred. However, as soon as Svoboda learned of this, he refused to resign with a last defiance. A year later, a special constitutional law…