Prime minister receives death threat

Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek said on Sunday that he had received a death threat in the post. The PM told the newspaper Hospodářské noviny that he had handed the letter over to the police for examination. There is speculation within the Civic Democratic Party that the letter is linked to a recent blackmailing scandal which revealed bitter rifts within the centre-right party, of which Mr Topolánek is head. Earlier this year, six parliamentary deputies from across the political spectrum received bullets in the post in the run up to the presidential elections. No one has been charged in relation to this earlier incident.