Communist Party leaders resign over poor elections results

The chairman of the Communist Party, Vojtěch Filip, and his deputies have announced their resignation. Mr. Filip told journalists in Prague on Tuesday that they would give up their posts at next Friday's executive committee meeting.

Mr Filip’s announcement came in reaction to the poor results of the Communists in last weekend’s regional and Senate elections. However, he did not rule out that he will re-run for the post of the party leader at the party congress in November.

The Communist Party won a total of 4.8 percent of the votes in the regional elections and the number of their district representatives dropped from 86 to 13.