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Dzurinda: Many Votes in Parliament Are Open, MPs Aren't Constrained
Tuesday 07 December 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, December 7 (TASR) - MPs vote for many officials openly and don't feel constrained because of it, coalition SDKU-DS chairman Mikulas Dzurinda said after Parliament failed to elect a new prosecutor-general on Tuesday.
Dzurinda was referring to the Coalition's plans to make the election of the prosecutor-general open after at least four coalition lawmakers in a previous vote last week backed opposition candidate Dobroslav Trnka at the expense of coalition nominee Jozef Centes.
"I didn't understand the hysteria that the open election of the prosecutor-general is subversive in terms of democracy from the very beginning," said Dzurinda. He expressed his satisfaction that the Coalition's obstructing tactics worked earlier in the day, meaning that Parliament can now change the law to make the election open.
When asked whether there isn't any need to find the 'traitors' in the Coalition, Dzurinda said that this isn't his task. "Is it good for Slovakia that the Coalition is together? I don't intend to analyse and comment on this any further," he stated.
Dzurinda also declined to comment on an announcement by the police on Tuesday that they have launched an investigation into whether corruption was involved in last week's vote. "This isn't my territory. My platform is that SDKU-DS has been behaving correctly, responsibly and in a transparent manner from the very beginning," he said.
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