More political resignations in the air from bribery scandal

In other news, a politician for the Christian Democrats has offered his resignation following a recent bribery scandal in which politicians from various parties were offered money for political favours. Jíri Stodůlka, the general secretary for the Christian Democratic Party, was apparently inclined to accept a party donation of one million crowns from an undercover reporter for the daily Mladá fronta Dnes if he would pressure his party to withdraw from a proposal to tax casino owners. The party’s chairman, Cyril Svoboda, said he had received an offer of resignation from Mr Stodůlka and that it would be discussed by the party’s heads on Tuesday. Communist Party leader Vojtěch Filip said over the weekend that he would quit the party himself if two members of his party who accepted the fictitious deal did not resign. One current member of parliament standing as a candidate for the new centre-right party TOP 09 resigned hours after the newspaper published its report on Saturday.