BRATISLAVA, December 13, (WEBNOVINY) — At Monday’s Coalition Council, the MOST-HID party will urge its coalition partners to elect the new prosecutor general as soon as possible. MOST-HID leader Bela Bugar says that it is not important for his party at the moment whether it will be a secret ballot or a public vote. He told a news conference he organized after the meeting of the MOST-HID leadership there exist various possibilities, however he did not elaborate further. According to him, now after four unsuccessful votes in parliament, the ruling coalition has to avoid mutual accusations and suspicions. Bugar believes that the elections could be held before Christmas. He said he finds this date realistic. Bugar wants to ask Prime Minister Iveta Radicova to deal with the issue of mutual trust first at the Coalition Council’s meeting to be held later on Monday.
Bugar said that the current happenings inside the coalition is a too a strong cup of tea for him and that he has not encountered such situation before. He underscored that the situation is now in the hands of four chairmen of coalition parties and heads of deputy clubs. The party intends to ask each single chairman of a coalition party and each head of a deputy caucus for the coalition to guarantee that disseminating various fictitious accusations and creating an atmosphere of distrust will be stopped and the ruling coalition will work on accomplishing its program and the government’s program statement instead. “The atmosphere of distrust is corroding the ruling coalition from inside, it is necessary to stop it”, he said.
On behalf of his party Bugar apologized to citizens for what is happening around the prosecutor general election, adding he feels ashamed. Bugar appealed on the coalition on behalf of his party to stop various accusations. “The situation is serious”, he warned. “MOST-HID condemns the deputies who did not help to elect the coalition’s joint candidate Jozef Centes to the post of prosecutor general. We state at the same time that we do not have relevant information that any of our deputies behaved like that,” he said. Bugar insists that his party mates did not contribute to the failure to elect Centes. He considers the double control mechanism his party applied during the election a sufficient guarantee of that.
Bugar expects SDKU’s Zoltan Horvath to apologize to MOST-HID’s Elemer Jakab whom the SDKU deputy accused of having provided an alibi for his party mates who voted for Centes’ opponent, the incumbent Prosecutor General Dobroslav Trnka. Bugar said that if he does not apologize it might happen that the MOST-HID deputy club will no support some of his proposals in order that he realizes that the coalition must cooperate. “Unfortunately, the whole Slovakia is having fun of us. We are undermining each other, accusing and mistrusting each other,” said Bugar.
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