BRATISLAVA, May 14, (WEBNOVINY)- The prosecutor general election on Tuesday may end up at the Constitutional Court again, indicated SMER-SD MP Marek Madaric on Slovak Radio on Saturday. He said that in the event of obstruction, which they will be able to contest at the Constitutional Court they will do so. In the case that the coalition hampers the prosecutor general election, SMER-SD will file a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Iveta Radicova. “Either straight on Tuesday or on Wednesday morning,” specified Madaric.
Culture Minister Daniel Krajcer (SaS) however turned down any allegations that the coalition quarter is coordinating their procedure before the Tuesday’s election. „It is impossible to speak of any coordination at the moment,” he opposed to Madaric in the ‚Saturday Dialogue‘ political show on Slovak Radio. He however refused to guarantee it on behalf of the whole coalition but he gave assurances that SaS‘ MPs will not vote for Dobroslav Trnka who remained the sole candidate for the prosecutor general post after the coalition’s nominee Jozef Centes gave up his candidacy on Friday. He withdrew his candidacy owing to suspicions that have surfaced after the last secret ballot in December.
SMER-SD politicians however believe that Centes has given up because Prime Minister Iveta Radicova asked him to do so. Madaric said that Radicova got frightened after the SDKU-DS club turned down the SaS‘ nominee for the position of head of the National Security Office (NBU), judge Peter Paluda. “She said that it is an excellent nomination and in turn SDKU-DS MPs absolutely toppled her when they rejected the nomination. It shows, in my opinion that panic originated at the Cabinet Office, as the prime minister understood that they can topple her also in the prosecutor general election,” believes Madaric.
Unlike Madaric, Krajcer advocates the change of the secret ballot to an open vote. He said that the example of the sickly functioning prosecution is mainly the last case of the ex-minister of construction for the SNS, Igor Stefanov who faced suspicions in the so-called notice-board tender but the Prosecutor General Office failed to ask the parliament to lift his deputy immunity.
SITA