Communist party leader calls on culture minister to resign

Communist Party leader Vojtech Filip has called on Culture Minister Daniel Herman to resign for “repeatedly breaking his oath of office”. The party leader accused Mr. Herman of lying when he said the president had crossed his uncle, Holocaust survivor George Brady, off the list of nominees for a state award and he once again criticized him for having attended the annual conference of the Sudeten Sudeten-German Landsmannschaft in Nuremberg in May of this year. At the meeting Culture Minister Herman expressed regret over the injustices that had broken up long years of fruitful coexistence between the nations, speaking both about the crimes of the Nazi regime as well as the violent acts of revenge committed during the post-war transfer of ethnic Germans from Czechoslovakia. The Communist Party leader said Herman’s actions damaged the country adding that if he did not resign of his own accord he would ask the prime minister to recall him. Culture Minister Herman, who attended the Landsmannschaft meeting as an official representative of the Czech government, lashed back, accusing the Communist Party of trying to raise its profile in the wake of its humiliating defeat in October’s Senate and local elections.