Survey: 56 percent think interior minister should resign

The minister of interior and chairman of the Mayors and Independents, Vít Rakušan, should resign according to 56 percent of respondents in a survey conducted by the Median agency for Czech Radio. Around a quarter of those asked said that the minister should remain in his post. The survey showed that it was mainly voters of opposition parties and those that are not represented in Parliament that wan Mr Rakušan to resign.

Mr Rakušan has come under pressure after a member of his party, the former councilor of Prague City Hall Petr Hlubuček, was charged by the police for allegations of corruption in the city’s Public Transit Company in what has become known as the “Dozimetr scandal”. Shortly thereafter, the minister placed Petr Mlejnek into the position of head of the country’s foreign intelligence service, even though he knew that Mr Mlejnek had been meeting with one of the central actors in the Dozimetr scandal, businessman Michal Redl.