BRATISLAVA, August 2, (WEBNOVINY) – All 79 deputies of the SDKU, the SAS, the KDH and the MOST-HID expressed unequivocal support to the government program statement, the Prime Minister Iveta Radicova reported after the meeting with coalition lawmakers in Parliament. The Parliament will begin to discuss the program statement on Tuesday, and Radicova specified that the government program statement will not be supplemented or changed during the debate. „The agreement is concluded,“ Radicova stated.
“We can discuss it richly and fruitfully for a really long time. We are armed with patience; the deputies of the SMER-SD may think twice whether they will sacrifice the next week, which could be free, or instead negotiate with us,“ the Speaker of the Parliament and the chairman of the SAS Richard Sulik said. He is not planning to limit time for speeches in the debate; however, if the discussion extends excessively, he will consider the reduction of the performances of individual deputies to ten minutes according to the rules of procedure.
Radicova considers today’s agreement of the party SAS and four of its deputies, members of the movement Ordinary People, the only possible solution, since she has previously announced that she will not be the Prime Minister of a minority government. The annual review of the government program statement and its possible correction is natural, according to Radicova, because it is necessary to respond to the current situation in Slovakia and in the world.
„The chairmen of the coalition parties cannot just park well, but also start well. And this will be a good start,“ Radicova said as a response to the attitude of the LS-HZDS chairman Vladimir Meciar, who did not vote for the program statement four years ago allegedly because he could not park his car.
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