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Sulik: Radicova Should Take More Interest in SDKU Financing Instead
Friday 06 August 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, August 6 (TASR) - Parliamentary Speaker and Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) chairman Richard Sulik on Friday responded to criticism from Prime Minister and SDKU-DS vice-chair Iveta Radicova by recommending that she should take more interest in how her own party is financed.
"There are far more question marks raised there than in the case of the clean, transparent financing of Liberal House," Sulik said in reaction to Radicova's statements regarding the SaS-founded company.
According to Sulik, the criticism levelled at the company isn't appropriate. "I can see now how sensitive a topic this is, however. It seems that we've underestimated public opinion, so we won't proceed forward tooth and nail. MPs won't have their offices there, and if so, then without Parliament paying for it," said Sulik.
Radicova said earlier that she views the use of taxpayers' money to pay for other MPs' offices in Bratislava, sometimes in houses that the MPs directly own, even though they already have offices close to Parliament, as preposterous and absurd. "This is an unequivocal abuse of public finances. It's also unacceptable to have the owners of these houses profiting from the taxpayers' money that the Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) party is entitled to based on its election results. They can't shift public finances back and forth like this," she said.
Richard Sulik along with 15 other SaS members set up Liberal House, a limited liability company, to buy a building in Bratislava to house party headquarters as well as a number of liberal institutions. The party also offered its MPs the chance to rent offices in the building. "It would have been up to those MPs. We surely wouldn't have forced anyone into this, as there isn't enough room for the offices of all SaS MPs," said Sulik.
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