BRATISLAVA, April 4, (WEBNOVINY) — The Deputy Chairman of the opposition SNS party Rafael Rafaj believes that the post of head of the Personal Data Protection Office should go to his party. The Coalition Council is discussing on Monday the recall and subsequent replacement of the current director of the office Gyula Veszelei. The topic made it on the Coalition Council’s agenda at the initiative of the ruling coalition member SaS. Rafaj writes in his statement that the party welcomes the initiative, which is to resolve the issue after two years of Veszelei’s over-service at the post. Rafaj believes that the ruling collation realizes and will acknowledge, within the set political culture that this post belongs to the opposition, namely to the SNS, based on „previous agreements.“
The coalition SaS reasons its proposal by the draft amendment to the law on protection of personal data, which the office submitted for interdepartmental review in December. “We are convinced that a person, who submits such blatant amendments to laws, should not hold such office. We will open this issue at the next Coalition Council, we will try to resolve this personnel issue,” said SaS Chairman Richard Sulik. According to him, the draft goes beyond requirements of European directives and adopting it would significantly damage the business sector. “The draft amendment, which the office is trying to quietly smuggle into the Parliament is not only against the government program statement with its philosophy. It is also against common sense and against the interest of the citizens,” Sulik thinks. He also said that it is indeed true that the current law needed amending, but in a different way, by removing all regulations not demanded by EU legislation. Veszelei’s draft proposes the opposite. The party also finds unacceptable the request in the draft of the office ‚s free of charge on-line access to company IT systems.
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