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SNS Wants to See Death Penalty Re-established
Friday 07 May 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, May 7 (TASR) - Co-ruling Slovak National Party (SNS) delegates to the programme conference held on Friday voted to approve its manifesto for the June 12 general election with new proposals in various spheres.
SNS showed in what it called the Programme of Responsibility and Opportunity for Slovakia that it continues to want capital punishment in the country reinstated to be applied for extremely brutal crimes.
Slovakia cannot institute death penalty as it is a signatory country to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms which bans it and takes precedence over national legislation.
SNS chief Jan Slota knows this and plans to discuss this issue with like-minded political parties in the European Union that seek to reinstate this penalty at the European level.
Furthermore, the party intends to simplify the legal system and make it more transparent, enhance their enforceability in fighting cronyism, corruption and abuses by close-knit interest groups in politics and the business sector.
Dispensation of welfare benefits is proposed to be tied to community work over a specified number of hours and child benefit to the care for a child and school attendance.
Teachers' salaries are proposed to go up to 1.6-1.8 times the average national salary. "If our country won't esteem its teachers it won't esteem its children either."
In the sector of culture, the party will demand the return of Slovakia's heritage that were removed from Slovakia and ended up in Hungarian museums and galleries when Slovakia was ruled by the Austro-Hungarian empire. As part of exercising the state language legislation, SNS will want television networks in southern Slovakia to air programmes also in Slovak.
As for the arrangement of the country, Slovakia should be divided into three (not eight as it is currently) regions and two cities (Bratislava and Kosice) which would enjoy a special status, and 46 districts (currently 79) for the better distribution of resources.
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