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Commission for General Election Takes Oath Before Prime Minister
Friday 19 March 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, March 19 (TASR) - Eighteen members of the Central Election Commission (UVK) for the general election due on June 12 made their oaths before Prime Minister Robert Fico on Friday, TASR learnt on the same day.
The commission's members were nominated by the 18 parties that have submitted slates for the plebiscite to UVK's records clerk Livia Skultetyova.
Based on a draw, the commission is to be chaired by Tatiana Janeckova (a Smer-SD party nominee) and vice-chaired by Zuzana Molnarova (a nominee of the Party of the Roma Coalition/SRK).
Prime Minister Robert Fico, who called UVK's first session, urged the members who represent various parties with differing views "to be completely aware of a common higher mission, that is to support and supervise the parliamentary elections in the spirit of our legislation and in the spirit of generally recognised principles of democracy around the world."
Candidate lists were submitted by the Alliance for the Europe of Nations (AZEN), the European Democratic Party (EDS), the Slovak Communist Party (KSS), the Christian Democratic Movement (KDH), LS-HZDS, People's Party-Our Slovakia, Most-Hid, New Democracy, Paliho Kapurkova, Freedom and Solidarity (SaS), SDKU-DS, the Slovak National Party (SNS), Smer-SD, the Party of the Democratic Left (SDL), the ethnic-Hungarian SMK, the Party of the Roma Coalition (SRK), Union-Party for Slovakia, and the Slovak Workers' Association (ZRS).
A total of 21 parties ran in the last parliamentary elections four years ago.
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