BRATISLAVA, February 9, (WEBNOVINY) — The outgoing center-right coalition will ultimately not amend the State Citizenship Act. On Thursday, Parliament gave red card to the revision intended to soften the current strict rules already in the first reading. As a result, Slovakia’s citizens will lose their Slovak citizenship if they acquire another country’s citizenship. Pavol Hrusovsky (KDH), Jozef Kollar (SaS) and Jozef Mikus (SDKU-DS) proposed in the rejected draft that people with a registered stay abroad will be able to keep their Slovak passport. Individuals that already lost it in compliance with the act’s effective wording but have a registered stay abroad would get their passport back.
Public functionaries will not bear material liability for the decision they make. Lawmakers gave the thumbs down for the revision of the law on liability for damages caused during the exercise of public power, penned by KDH MP Radoslav Prochazka, who wanted to make the respective public servants pay for damages on public property caused by deliberate negligence.
Parliament rejected as well four amendments tabled by the group of Ordinary People. They proposed a cap the money the state gives to political parties, provision of more exact information on prices of holiday trips, reduction of salaries of those that hold more posts paid from public funds and a new wording of the Election Code.
MPs further voted against the draft revision by Jozef Viskupic, Martin Poliacik, Jana Zitnanska and Miroslav Beblavy that was to introduce public licenses for all kinds of works of authorship. They are commonly used in the field of IT, particularly in dissemination of information through the web.
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