Parliament to vote on capping retirement age in November

Parliament will definitely decide on the constitutional bill introducing retirement age caps at 64 years of age during its session slated to be held in November, TASR learnt on Tuesday. MP for Smer-SD Jan Podmanický submitted in the plenary session a procedural proposal in the name of the coalition on the grounds that the parties want to find consensus on this. Smer-SD needs a constitutional majority, meaning also votes from the Opposition, for the final approval of the law. However, the senior governing party didn't have them at all as Ordinary People (OĽaNO) and We Are Family presented their own proposal at the last minute. Opposition party SaS has rejected the proposal, junior governing party Most-Híd was also critical about the draft but its MPs were free to vote according to their discretion. The far-right ĽSNS and the right Slovak National Party (SNS) planned to support the proposal.