A regular House session with over 200 points on the agenda was opened on Tuesday afternoon. MPs should, among other things, deal with laws vetoed by President Zuzana Caputova, as well as bills to which the milestones from the recovery plan are bound.
Several MPs declared their ambition to conclude the regular session by May 19. In order to manage this, MPs will shorten their lunch breaks by an hour and will hold talks longer on Fridays, Parliamentary Vice-chair Gabor Grendel (OLANO) told TASR, adding that a lawmakers' gremium agreed on this.
At Tuesday’s session MPs once again approved in the original version an amendment to the law on one-off extraordinary measures to regulate the preparation of some highway and road construction works that was vetoed by President Zuzana Caputova. A total of 123 MPs backed the amendment in the repeated vote.
The head of state vetoed the bill on the grounds that it would exclude any economic oversight of construction projects by the Finance Ministry's Money for Value section. In the president's view, the time saved by scrapping economic assessments in the preparation stage of highway construction will not offset potential negative impacts on public finances.
(TASR)
