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Simon: No Rule Of Law in Slovakia Under This Government
Wednesday 12 May 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, May 12 (TASR) - Slovakia lacks the rule of law under the leadership of the current Government, said non-parliamentary Most-Hid party vice-chairman Zsolt Simon at a protest in front of the Government Office in Bratislava on Wednesday.
"If the rule of law existed, scandals such as the construction of a landfill site in Pezinok (Bratislava region), the High Tatras zonation scheme, the nationalisation of land on which highways are being built as well as the planned construction of a oil pipeline across the area of Zitny Ostrov - with its underground source of drinking water - would not exist," said Simon.
Simon, along with his party colleague Alzbeta Ozvaldova and representatives of the Civic Conservative Party (OKS) Peter Zajac and Ondrej Dostal, came to support a protest against the construction of the Pezinok landfill and express their opposition to the pipeline construction and other mentioned cases.
Simon thinks that all these issues are expressions of this Government's arrogance of power. He pointed out that according to the Slovak Constitution, every Slovak citizen has the right to live in a decent environment. "We don't want great promises or statements from this Government, we want it to act. Slovak Premier (Robert Fico) said that he doesn't want the oil pipeline through Zitny Ostrov, but nevertheless he didn't order his minister and party colleague (Economy Minister Lubomir Jahnatek) to cancel the memorandum (on this project) with Austria, or to add a addendum to that memorandum banning the pipeline from going through the territory. This is also the case with the Pezinok landfill site. This isn't the rule of law," stated Simon.
OKS head Peter Zajac also condemned the Government. "All this that's happening here speaks about the ignorance of this Government towards people, towards the environment and mainly about the greed of this Government, because it's behind it all," he said.
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