Prime Minister Ódor is scheduled to hold a series of talks with leaders of parliamentary political parties as of Monday (May 29), to discuss the Government Manifesto and explore options of receiving parliamentary confidence. "The invitation to talks applies to parties Demokrati, Hlas-SD, OLaNO, Progresívne Slovensko, SaS, Sme Rodina, Smer-SD and Za ľudí," said PM's spokesperson Peter Majer.
Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová expects that the Parliament, which dismissed the previous government, will give the government of experts a chance and will discuss the vote of confidence in a substantive manner, will get acquainted with its programme statement and will not take an a priori rejectionist attitude towards it. "Unfortunately, there are parties that declare this in advance without any substantive argumentation," Čaputová pointed out.
According to her, a vote of confidence would help in drawing up the state budget and the budget of local governments. If Parliament does not express confidence in the experts' government, it will function in the same mode as the government of Eduard Heger after 30 days.
The President claims that the ministers are honestly working on the government's programme statement and are putting the emphasis in the right places. The Prime Minister's ambition is to consolidate things, put things right and ensure the proper running of the state. According to her, this government is not going to build a "monument of success for six months", but is thinking how to prepare conceptual changes for the government that will emerge from the elections.
In the event that Smer-SD wins the parliamentary elections, Čaputová would entrust Robert Fico with the task of forming the government. "The first dialogue is always with the person who brought their party to a victorious end," Čaputová said, adding that this is a constitutional tradition.
She is preparing legal action against Fico for his remarks about her. She wants the submission to be of good quality and well drafted. She declared that she will definitely file it. "If someone builds politics on total destruction, on creating fear, just to score political points, it is cynical and irresponsible, because it disintegrates the state," she pointed out.
The head of state considers the withdrawal of the fiduciary declaration bill from Parliament's deliberations as a good step. "It was seen by many as a fig leaf, rather than as a sort of substitute that does not provide the range of options that other countries within the European Union have," she concluded. Some, according to the president, feared that the passage of this law would be an argument to the new parliament that the situation with unmarried couples was handled.
Source: TASR
