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OKS Wants to Avert "Post-election Thievery"
Tuesday 29 June 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, June 29 (TASR) - Civic Conservative Party (OKS) wants the government manifesto to include a plan to introduce a legal amendment disallowing the outgoing government from closing disadvantageous contracts, OKS' Ondrej Dostal said on Tuesday, describing the proposal as designed to stave off post-election thievery.
"The government, the ministries as well as other (state institutions) would be prohibited to exercise certain actions linked to handling the state assets and the use of public finances," explained Dostal, who along his party colleagues Peter Zajac, Frantisek Sebej and Peter Osusky have become new MPs via their support in preferential balloting on the Most-Hid party slate.
Dostal said that in the period in question, the privatisation of state assets, sale and rent of movable assets as well as real estate properties over a certain value, closing contracts concerning supply of products over a certain value as well as making amendments to those contracts, announcing and closing public procurement over a certain value, closing contracts linked to the drawing of EU funds as well as decide about allocations from state budget will be prohibited.
"Certain values and exceptions would have to be defined there. This precaution is not aimed at paralysing of the state organs and state administration," said the newly-elected MP, adding that the sums and exceptions have not been defined yet. "The common running of the state has to go on. We would have to take exceptional situations such as nature disasters into consideration," stated Dostal. For example, he said he sees no reason for renting real estate worth tens of millions of euro in a period when an old government is leaving to be replaced by a new one.
"Such things don't only happen at the state level, therefore we think similar measures should be applied at the regional and local governments' levels," he explained, adding that this is not yet a elaborated legislative proposal, but an idea.
"Closing of disadvantageous contracts does not only concern the outgoing governing coalition, but the former rightist governments as well," said Dostal's colleague Peter Osusky.
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