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Lawmakers Judge Outgoing Parliament
Saturday 13 March 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, March 13 (TASR) - Governing coalition lawmakers had during this Parliament disregarded the principle of parliamentary democracy and exercised majority rule, said opposition Christian Democrats (KDH) whip Pavol Hrusovsky assessing the outgoing four-year period, which has been completed this week.
According to Hrusovsky who had led the legislature in the past, the Opposition was not allowed to participate in making decisions influencing the public, economic and political life.
"It was reminding me of power politics which I thought we have renounced. Parliament had been seeking to state its views often with derision and contempt for the opinion of others," Hrusovsky told TASR.
Governing Smer-SD lawmaker Dusan Jarjabek described Hrusovsky's remarks as those of an opposition politician, saying he would like to remind Hrusovsky of his conduct in the governing coalition "when we (in opposition) could not have pushed through nothing what for example concerned public-service media".
Jarjabek conceded that Opposition in some instances is suppressed saying it is because it submits non-sense in order to put itself on the map.
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