BRATISLAVA, September 8, (WEBNOVINY) — Speaker of the Slovak Parliament Richard Sulik has convened an unscheduled parliamentary session, initiated by the opposition party SMER-SD with the aim to oust Prime Minister Iveta Radicova, for Tuesday. It will take place after the planned voting scheduled for 5 p.m.
SMER-SD leader Robert Fico and party deputy chairman Pavol Paska delivered the proposal for the extraordinary session to parliament on Thursday. In the wake of a corruption case involving an aide to Prime Minister Iveta Radicova directly at the Cabinet Office and regarding her yesterday’s performance, evidently covering party cronyism, SMER-SD is convinced of her moral failure. Thus, she has no right to lead the government, according to Fico. Deputies for the opposition party SNS signed the motion, as well.
Opposition MPs plan to remind the prime minister of her statements about corruption and cronyism and clarify to the public of where she failed. “What she has done is an extraordinarily sad surprise for us,” the SMER-SD chair remarked. He rebuked Radicova for having defended the rental contract for a building for tax authorities in the eastern Slovak city of Kosice, granted to Nitra Invest owned by chairman of SDKU-DS regional structure, Ondrej Scurka. Fico does not believe that the prime minister had not known about the Osrblie scandal related to persons working at the Cabinet Office.
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