Foto de stock - Lenka Prochazkova and Karel Srp (photo), candidates Totalitarian Regimes Study Institute (USTR) council's members proposed by President Milos Zeman, give press conference on Thursday, August 17, 2017. Senate did not approve their nomination. Karel Srp, founder and long-term head of the dissident Jazz Section, demands that Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka prove his contacts with the former communist secret police (StB) due to which he did not appoint him an ethical commission member, Srp told reporters today. He added that otherwise, he would sue Sobotka. Founded by Srp during the communist era, the Jazz Section assisted in publishing books and other materials, including banned ones. Sobotka (Social Democrats, CSSD) refused to co-sign the proposal of President Milos Zeman for appointing Srp, 80, a member of the ethical commission to honour anti-communist resistance in January. He argued with Srp's collaboration with the StB. Srp was the second candidate Zeman nominated to the USTR board this year. The previous one, writer Lenka Prochazkova, met all requirements, but the Senate did not elect her in April. She supported Srp at the press conference. Prochazkova's nomination triggered a stormy reaction by the USTR trade union. In an open letter, its representatives said she approached history of the country from the ideological point of view and used a propaganda and demagogic style. Prochazkova dismissed this. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Deml)