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Fico Vows to Amend Constitution to Clear Path for Property Disclosure Act
Monday 04 January 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, January 4 (TASR) - The Government is slated to discuss a draft of the property disclosure act as well as a so-called small amendment to the Slovak Constitution at its session due on January 13, Prime Minister Robert Fico told a press conference on Monday.
Both initiatives have already been submitted for fast-track legislative proceedings.
The property disclosure bill is set to include the same provisions that were labelled as anti-constitutional by Slovakia's Constitutional Court. It concerns, for instance, a provision on retroactivity as well as on the burden of proof, as the act proposed that an individual should be obliged to explain how they acquired their property.
The new bill proposes that people prove the origin of property that exceeds 1,000 or 1,500 times the minimum wage as of January 1, 1990, with Fico more inclined towards the former option.
Fico also spoke about the so-called small amendment, "We'll include a new paragraph in Article 20 of the Slovak Constitution that will allow for approving an act that will deal with illegally-acquired property or with situations in which somebody has bought such property using illegally-acquired income." The amendment should then open up a path to passing the property disclosure act.
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