Current Affairs Civic Democrat chairman causes uproar over remarks about gays, Jews, Church

22-03-2010 15:24 | Jan Velinger

The chairman of the Civic Democratic Party, Mirek Topolánek, is in hot water over an interview he gave to a gay magazine. It included controversial statements about two members of the government, as well as the suggestion that the Church had made idiots of the masses. Mr Topolánek later apologised, but has come in for some criticism – including from inside his own party.

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