Coalition has own plan on how to scrap Mečiar’s amnesties

The governing coalition will submit its own constitutional solution for revoking former Prime Minister Vladimír Mečiar's amnesties at the Government session slated for Wednesday, March 15, according to Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD). "We're prepared to vote for abrogating the amnesties, if we make a relevant amendment to the Slovak Constitution first," claimed Fico on behalf of the coalition. The agreed solution calls for Parliament and the Constitutional Court to be invested with powers that will enable them to act, thus opening the door for lawmakers to annul the amnesties. The so-called Mečiar's amnesties relate both to the 1995 kidnapping of then Slovak President's son Michal Kováč Jr. and the murder in 1996 of Róbert Remiáš, who served as a contact for a key witness in the abduction.