BRATISLAVA, October 23, (WEBNOVINY) – The situation around the election of a new prosecutor general can test the perspective of the SDKU-DS party to form a large coalition with the opposition SMER-SD party, alleged deputy for the KDH party Radoslav Prochazka on air of the Slovak Radio on Saturday. “I have a feeling that one of the biggest local geniuses of the political backstage has overdone it a bit,” stated Prochazka.
The KDH deputy underscored that unlike incumbent Prosecutor General Dobroslav Trnka, he does not think that the case of Hedviga Malinova is trivial. Malinova is an ethnic Hungarian student who became the victim of an allegedly ethically motivated attack in 2006, but police investigation concluded she made up the story. According to Prochazka, this case, even though of lesser social importance, is somewhat close to the case of abduction of the son of former President Michal Kovac to Austria, because it concerns the relation of brachial power, repressive units of the state to its own citizens. According to him, the election of the prosecutor general should not be a referendum in Parliament on who thinks what about the case of Malinova. According to Prochazka, Trnka is a carrier prosecutor, who lives for the prosecution, and is very hardheaded and autonomous, an in many areas can achieve relatively good results. Nonetheless, Prochazka will support Eva Misikova for the post of the new prosecutor general.
Deputy for the opposition SMER-SD party Robert Madej stated on air of the Slovak Radio that if a crisis arose among the ruling parties regarding the election of the new prosecutor general, it would prove that the coalition is trying to gain as much power as possible in the judiciary at any cost and wants to interfere in the sphere. According to Madej, all three candidates for the post of prosecutor general are relevant. The SMER-SD party will decide on the support for one of them after hearing them out at the Parliamentary Constitutional and Judicial Committee, but deputies will decide autonomously.
Eva Misikova, a prosecutor serving at the Office of the Prosecutor General, is the joint candidate for the post of Prosecutor General of three parties of the ruling coalition, SaS, KDH and MOST-HID. The three partners plan to debate the nomination with the SDKU-DS. The three parties submitted their suggestion after the leaders of four coalition parties failed to agree upon a joint candidate. MOST-HID leader Bela Bugar suggested that the three parties support a candidate of SDKU-DS but the strongest member of the ruling coalition failed to come up with a candidate, although two of its MPs tabled their proposals; Stanislav Janis backed the incumbent Prosecutor General Dobroslav Trnka and Jana Dubovcova nominated the Prosecutor at the Special Prosecutor Office, Jan Hrivnak. The election of the Prosecutor General will be held on November 3. The seven-year term of office of Dobroslav Trnka will expire in the spring of 2011.
SITA