Parliamentary Chairman Peter Pellegrini may see his yearly salary withheld if the Parliamentary Committee for Conflict of Interest acknowledges a complaint that Pellegrini, as a public official, has been involved in the promotion of a private company. According to the head of the extra-parliamentary Civic Conservative Party Ondrej Dostál who filed the complaint, Pellegrini has violated a constitutional law by using his "person, name, surname and effigy" to aid the distribution of a video commercial promoting a competition called The School Dance on his Facebook profile. Dostál pointed out that the video also contains promotion of commercial products, for example, one from Samsung, which is one of the competition sponsors. At the same time, he pointed to the fact that the competition's organisers seem to have mutual links. The competition is being organised by a company called AGEMSOFT and non-profit organisations EDULAB and DANSOVIA. "AGEMSOFT and EDULAB are headquartered at the same address and are personally linked via Petra Hlaváčová," said Dostál. According to Dostál AGEMSOFT in the past was supposed to deliver to the education ministry a "controversial and repeatedly challenged digital education programme Planet of Knowledge, with the non-profit organisation EDULAB also taking part in the project".
In the aforementioned 2 minute ad Peter Pellegrini who for a short time in mid 2014 was Education Minister is shot as sitting in his ministerial office. From there he's taken to the countryside where he rides a tractor, works on his tablet and while taking a break in the grass his tractor transforms into a dancing robot. In reaction to the complaint filed, the current Speaker of Parliament Peter Pellegrini claims he is proud that he supported free of charge a non-profit project that supports and motivates children to be active and engaged. He claims the organisers have asked him to create a non-conventional ad that would promote the event and thus get students and schools interested in the project.
