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Fair Play Alliance Slams Profligate Lawmakers
Friday 30 April 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, April 30 (TASR) - The Fair-play Alliance (AFP), a non-profit making organisation that monitors the use of public funds by the political elite, has expressed concern over the wasteful spending of taxpayer's money in Parliament after carrying out a survey of MPs from all party caucuses.
AFP representative Zuzana Wienk said that only two or three lawmakers are using designated modern office space at Bratislava Castle. Most others use their €900 monthly allowance to rent space from acquaintances or their own party - e.g. Agnes Biro and Ivan Farkas of the ethnic-Hungarian SMK, Martin Fronc of the fellow opposition Christian Democrats (KDH) and Vladimir Meciar of the co-ruling LS-HZDS. They are entitled to do this, but Wienk believes that this represents a conflict of interest.
As the worst spendthrifts, however, she singled out more than ten lawmakers from the strongest ruling party Smer-SD - Mojmir Mamojka, Miroslav Ciz, Olga Nachtmannova, to name but a few, who have paid overpriced rates for communal amenities in addition to office space rented at their party headquarters on Gundulicova Street.
According to Wienk, Smer office space accounted only for 19 percent of the bill for all rented property.
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