Police offer running for extreme-right party in EP elections

A Czech police officer is running for the extreme-right National Party in the June elections to the European Parliament, the daily Lidové noviny reported on Tuesday. A spokesman for the police said that his superiors were aware of the fact and did not consider it a problem since the officer was not actually a member of the National Party. The officer, Jaroslav Bernásek, said he had been offered the chance to run and was not remotely interested in the party’s ideology. He denied that his candidacy was in conflict with his profession.