BRATISLAVA, May 3, (WEBNOVINY)- Prime Minister Iveta Radicova said after the Coalition Council’s sitting on Monday evening that the May election of the new prosecutor general in parliament will be secret. “The coalition respects the Constitutional Court’s decision and will repeat the prosecutor general election in compliance with it on the first day of the May session of the Slovak Parliament. Any MP will obtain any instructions. They simply do not exist. The coalition’s joint candidate is Jozsef Centes,” Radicova told journalists. She restated that she has not changed her mind and will resign if Dobroslav Trnka is elected.
The repeated secret prosecutor general election should take place during the May parliamenary session starting on May 17. 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.
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