Two Social Democrats kicked out of party

The Central Executive Committee of the Social Democratic Party voted to dismiss two of its members over the weekend. Ludmila Schwarzova, the former head of the deputy transport minister's office is suspected of corruption, and Marian Kus is thought to have forged his lustration certificate. Sources say that Kus was a former communist-era intelligence agent tasked with infiltrating church circles in Czechoslovakia and Poland prior to 1989; his name appears on the list of communist secret police (StB) collaborators. Schwarzova and Kus were voted out by three-fifths of the Social Democratic Party membership.