Danko wants to hold no-confidence motion in him

The Slovak National Party (SNS) will lend support to the plan to convene an extraordinary session of the Parliament with the aim of holding a no-confidence motion in Parliamentary Chair Andrej Danko (SNS). Speaking at a press briefing on Thursday, Danko claimed that he wanted lawmakers to let him know whether or not they trust him. Speaker of Parliament and the chairman of the coalition Slovak National Party faces suspicions circulated by the local media that his doctoral dissertation is a plagiarism. Deputy Parliament Speaker Lucia Duris Nicholsonova from the opposition Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) party announced that if Danko did not step down on his own, they would start collecting signatures to convene an extraordinary parliamentary session with a single point on its agenda - the ousting of Andrej Danko from the post of speaker of Parliament. "It is impossible to rule and work without having the coalition's trust," Danko announced on Thursday evening. The major coalition member SMER backed its partner stating that Andrej Danko is a legitimate Parliament's Speaker for the party. The junior member of the governing coalition, the party MOST-HID issued an official statement reading that Speaker of Parliament and chairman of the co-ruling Slovak National Party Andrej Danko should make a personal decision. The Dean of the Faculty of Law of the Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica Michal Turošík informed on Thursday that the commission reviewing the work in question needed sufficient time for a quality analysis. The independent daily Denník N suggests that the thesis written in 2000 was copied.