Supreme State Attorney wants to address parliament over Cunek case

The Supreme State Attorney Renata Vesecka wants to take the unusual step of addressing parliament following her dismissal of Radim Obst, the state attorney in charge of the corruption case taken against Deputy Prime Minister Jiri Cunek. A spokeswoman for Ms Vesecka said on Saturday that the Supreme State Attorney wanted to address MPs in order to clear up what she described as "untruthful and biased information" regarding the Cunek case. Mr Obst was replaced on Friday by another attorney over a procedural mistake. The move brought strong reaction from the opposition during a parliamentary session on Friday, which was interrupted after both Social Democrat and Communist MPs failed to push through a debate on the matter. The Social Democrats have accused the government of trying to manipulate proceedings and have said they may consider calling for a vote of no-confidence in the centre-right government. Mr Cunek has been under investigation for several months now over allegations that he accepted a bribe while mayor of the Moravian town of Vsetin five years ago.