BRATISLAVA, September 13, (WEBNOVINY) — Following an unscheduled Cabinet session on Tuesday, Deputy Prime Minister and Transport Minister, Jan Figel, stated that the no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Iveta Radicova, initiated by the opposition, is based on misleading arguments. “We reject the arguments and the proposal as such, based on misleading arguments and accusations of the prime minister of incompetence or failures because the economic and social results as well as Cabinet’s further consolidation measures react to the burdening heritage left after the previous government and to very complicated international environment regarding the financial and economic development,” Figel said on Tuesday. All members of the Slovak Cabinet unanimously rejected the proposal at the unscheduled Cabinet session. “All [Cabinet] members and specifically also representatives of four ministerial clubs for SDKU-DS, SaS, MOST-HID and KDH supported this position during the talks,” he noted. The Cabinet has entrusted Figel with clarifying the Cabinet’s position at the unscheduled parliamentary session later on Tuesday.
Deputy Speaker of Parliament and SMER-SD leader Robert Fico will justify the proposal in front of MPs. He stated that the motion was not triggered solely by cases of corruption and cronyism of people close to the prime minister, her aide and the chair of the SDKU-DS district organization. “It will not simply be a discussion about the tax directorate case but this motion will be filed due to prime minister’s total inaptitude to lead the government of the Slovak Republic and because of consequences the Slovak Republic incurred thanks to her incapability,” Fico clarified the party’s decision last week.
A few days before having filed the motion, SMER-SD was willing to reassess the decision if the prime minister had sacked Finance Minister Ivan Miklos and revoked the rental contract for a building for tax authorities in Kosice. Nonetheless, not even these steps would clear Radicova in Fico’s eyes completely. “The prime minister could rectify the disturbed picture of her credibility a bit, but only a bit,” he announced. Radicova, however, considers the rental contract in Kosice a closed matter.
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