Senate commission rejects Srp nomination over membership in Czechoslovakia’s communist party

President Zeman’s nomination of Karel Srp to a board overseeing the
country’s Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes hit a hurdle on
Tuesday. Srp, a former dissident who headed the so-called Jazz Section in
communist Czechoslovakia, was rejected by the Senate’s Commission on
Election. It stressed that the nominee had been a member of
Czechoslovakia’s communist party, which was disqualifying.