President again declines to sign bill on poll moratorium

President Zuzana Caputova has declined to sign a bill extending the moratorium on publishing the results of polls before elections from 14 to 50 days, Caputova's communication office director Martina Goffova announced on Thursday. Parliament recently overturned the President's veto on the law, which the latter considers possibly unconstitutional with respect to the right of collecting and spreading information. Caputova has vowed to approach the Constitutional Court to examine the law and perhaps even suspend it in view of the general election set for February 29, 2020. The lawmakers who supported the bill in Parliament - mainly from Smer-SD, the Slovak National Party (SNS) and the People's Party Our Slovakia - were pointing to possible manipulation of the public via polls.