FILE PHOTO - Demonstrators hold banners during a protest rally opposing the appointment of Communist member of parliament Zdenek Ondracek to chair a committee that oversees Czech police inspection in Prague, Czech Republic, March 5, 2018. REUTERS/David W Cerny
PRAGUE (Reuters) - Thousands of Czechs protested in Prague and other cities on Monday evening after parliament endorsed a Communist party lawmaker to head oversight of the police despite his past in a communist-era special unit.
The lower house on Friday narrowly backed Zdenek Ondracek to head its police oversight committee. It is the first time a Communist lawmaker has held such a post since the fall of communism nearly three decades ago.
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