Luzar wants change in Communists' top ranks, favours MEP Konecna

Leo Luzar, a candidate for the chairman of Czech Communists (KSCM) and a deputy for the Moravia-Silesia Region, anticipates the party's congress next Saturday to bring about a radical personnel change in the current leadership, he said in an interview with CTK on Thursday. Luzar said he believes the concept of cooperation of two opinion streams represented by the current KSCM chairman Vojtech Filip on the one hand, and by the more radical Josef Skala on the other, which arose from the last KSCM congress, had not proven successful. From this viewpoint, MEP Katerina Konecna is Luzar's favourite. He sees her as the new face of KSCM's politics. "She is a young energetic woman who introduces the experience from the domestic political scene. She is communicative, she has modern, unorthodox views based in our ideas," Luzar said.