BRATISLAVA, May 14, (WEBNOVINY)- The KDH refuses to consider the possible reconstruction of the Cabinet in the event that Dobroslav Trnka is elected prosecutor general on Tuesday. According to information from SDKU-DS circles rumors are circulated inside the party that if Trnka is re-elected and Prime Minister Iveta Radicova keeps her promise and resigns over Trnka’s re-election somebody else would replace her at helm of the Cabinet. The replacement fro Radicova allegedly is the current Justice Minister Lucia Zitnanska. In such case, the SDKU-DS reportedly is willing to offer to its coalition partners to form the new Cabinet without party chairman Mikulas Dzurinda and even without Finance Minister Ivan Miklos. “Nobody has turned to the KDH with such offer. We do not have any reason to consider it, because we guarantee that 14 votes of KDH people in parliament will not go to Dobroslav Trnka,“ KDH Deputy Chairman Pavol Abrhan told SITA.
Another coalition party, MOST-HID of Bela Bugar guarantees its support to the government of Iveta Radicova as well. According to the head of its deputy caucus Laszlo Solymos it does not have any reason to support another government. Solymos gave assurances as well that Trnka would wait in vain for coalition votes from MOST-HID.
The coalition’s candidate for the post of prosecutor general Jozef Centes has withdrawn his candidacy on Friday. Thus the only candidate in the repeated secret ballot to be held on May 17 is Dobroslav Trnka, nominated by the SMER-SD party and having the support of all opposition deputies. „I took back my consent with the candidacy for being named the prosecutor general, as suspicions on possible corrupt behavior and possible blackmail have risen regarding the secret vote. These are subject to a criminal investigation. As this information has repeatedly shown in the media, under these circumstances I did not want to take part in them,” explained the prosecutor.
At the last secret ballot to elect the new prosecutor general, Dobroslav Trnka whose term in office ended in February was a mere one vote short of being reelected to the post. The coalition feared that Trnka might be reelected as prosecutor general and thus its MPs took photos of their ballots and published them to prove they did not vote for Trnka but for Centes. The Constitutional Court however ruled that such behavior thwarted the secret ballot and infringed rights of one of the candidates, Dobroslav Trnka and ordered to repeat the secret ballot. Meanwhile the coalition voted to pass a bill to change the parliamentary standing order enabling a public vote on the new prosecutor general. However, the president has vetoed the bill, which is now back in parliament.
SITA