BRATISLAVA, October 6, (WEBNOVINY) — Following intensive media pressure and attacks, Minister of Justice Lucia Zitnanska (SDKU-DS) issued a statement about how she acquired her apartment in Bratislava. She says she does not see any problem in that the old town district of Bratislava assigned her an apartment in 1992. „I really have clear conscience, because similarly as thousands of other people in Slovakia in 1992, I was assigned an apartment and I had no clue at that time that some day I will end up in politics,“ Zitnanska said for the media. Just as everyone else, she paid for the apartment its residual value and rejected claims that she bought one the basis of some „connections“. „No, it was absolutely standard,“ reacted Zitnanska. According to her it was a situation, which many people can remember before the year 1989, when people were on waiting lists of applicants for communal or state homes. According to Zitnanska, it was the responsibility of towns how they set the rules and their criteria for assigning a home.
The media also attacked Finance Minister Ivan Miklos (SDKU-DS) who also has a home in downtown Bratislava. He stated that he became its owner by exchanging it for another home he owned. He exchanged his communal apartment for a rental apartment, in other words, a council apartment which he later bought according to the law similarly as many other people. „I exchanged one three-room apartment for another three-room apartment, which I did on the basis of an application and I believe that it is still filed there, that my juvenile son had asthma and problems with breathing during the heating season in a concrete panel block, so I exchanged our an apartment in a brick house,“ said Miklos. He added that the apartment was quite devastated so it required some investments.
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