BRATISLAVA, March 15, (WEBNOVINY) — For the first time in its contemporary history, Slovakia will get a one-party government. After roundtable talks on Thursday of leaders of all parliamentary parties that made it to parliament in the March 10 early elections, initiated by the election winner SMER-SD, its leader Robert Fico for the last time opened the possibility of forming a coalition. However the remaining five parties that got to parliament dismissed the offer. The Social-Democrats will thus rule independently for the next four years. President Ivan Gasparovic has already announced that he will charge Robert Fico to create a new government already later on Thursday.
Leaders of parliamentary parties agreed at their meeting to cancel parliamentary immunity from criminal prosecution of MPs and other constitutional officials, announced SMER-SD leader Robert Fico. He said that absolute agreement was reached over the issue and thus the respective constitutional amendment will be upheld by all 150 MPs. The parties also achieved an agreement on softening the state citizenship law so that people with real ties to the other country would not lose their Slovak citizenship by obtaining the other citizenship based on their free will. Fico is prepared as well to support the adoption of a constitutional norm by which parliament will condemn the so-called Meciar’s amnesties shielding organizers of the kidnapping of the son of former Slovak president Michal Kovac, but will not scrap them.
Regarding the Prosecutor-General elect Jozef Centes, Robert Fico stated he is determined to wait for the Constitutional Court’s decision that will rule whether the president is obliged to appoint the parliament-elected candidate or not. After MOST-HID representatives opened the issue of minorities Fico stated that his party is not interested in changing the current status quo.
Fico deems the just closed negotiations interesting, fair and constructive. He said that his party will leave two deputy speakers of parliament posts to the opposition while SMER will have the speaker of parliament and one deputy speaker post. The party is to propose Pavol Paska for the top parliamentary job. Though SMER-SD will have more MPs in the future parliament than the outgoing right-center coalition, the ratio of committees led by the coalition and the opposition will be the same as in 2010-2012.
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