{"id":426,"date":"2017-12-20T17:17:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T16:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/czechpoints.com\/?p=426"},"modified":"2019-07-11T16:32:52","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T14:32:52","slug":"twas-a-christmas-miracle-commie-riot-cop-ondraceks-election-overturned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/czechpoints.com\/twas-a-christmas-miracle-commie-riot-cop-ondraceks-election-overturned\/","title":{"rendered":"Twas a Christmas Miracle &#8211; Commie Riot Cop Ondracek&#8217;s Election Overturned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif;\">A vote to elect a new chairman of the standing parliamentary commission overseeing the police general inspectorate (GIBS) will have to be repeated, the speaker of the lower house Radek Vondr\u00e1\u010dek made clear on Wednesday, citing \u201cconfusion\u201d in a second secret vote on Tuesday.<\/span><span style=\"background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); border-radius: 0px !important;\">The Communist Party\u2019s nominee Zden\u011bk Ondr\u00e1\u010dek was originally thought to have been elected before a technical issue came to light, casting the result of the vote in doubt.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); border-radius: 0px !important;\">His election, seen as highly controversial because of Mr Ondr\u00e1\u010dek\u2019s role as a communist-era police officer who took part in a clampdown on student demonstrators in 1989, prompted dozens of people to protest in front of Parliament on Tuesday evening before the announcement was made.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; 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