A Czech Communist lawmaker resigned on Tuesday as chair of a parliamentary commission overseeing police internal affairs, after thousands protested the appointment because of his past in a communist-era special unit. Zdeněk Ondráček was narrowly elected by the lower house of parliament last Friday to head the commission – the first Communist lawmaker to hold such a post since the fall of communism nearly three decades ago.
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