Opposition collects enough signatures to challenge pension law

Opposition parties have collected enough signatures from MPs in order to challenge the recently approved legislation on the minimum pension at the Constitutional Court. Lawyer Peter Kubina stressed that politicians aren't objecting to the minimum pension as such, but against the law's provision whereby the minimum pension should be cut for pensioners who have saved for their retirement in the private second pillar of the system. "If the Constitutional Court grants our request, nobody will lose out on anything. The concept of the minimum pension will be preserved, no pensioner will lose anything. Only those from whom lawmakers have taken something away would receive what they are due," said Kubina, singling out 'discrimination' as the main reason for challenging the law. The legislation was vetoed by President Andrej Kiska in late May, but Parliament overruled it in mid-June.