BRATISLAVA, November 4, (WEBNOVINY) – During the past four years, the public procurement law has been violated so often in Slovakia that a impression has arisen that it is absolutely unnecessary. Also for this reason, a change on the post of prosecutor general is needed, stated Prime Minister Iveta Radicova during the regular Question Hour in the Slovak Parliament on Thursday. According to the prime minister, “millions and billions” have vanished in the country “without anybody being taken to account for it”. She restated that the biggest shortcomings of the Office of the Prosecutor General are not in what it did, but in what it did not do. Radicova’s goal is to restore the citizens’ trust in the state, its institutions, justice, and enforceability of laws.
Deputy for the opposition SMER-SD party Branislav Ondrus said in his question that Radicova is a spokeswoman of two opposing coalition camps. The prime minister reminded Ondrus that in 2003, incumbent Prosecutor General Dobroslav Trnka was elected to the post in Parliament with a wide camp of both the coalition and opposition parties, including the SDKU-DS and SMER-SD. She emphasized that if she is a spokeswoman of something, then it is first of all of a country with the rule of law, free of cronyism and corruption. “I want to invite you to cooperate, so that you and other deputies for the opposition and the coalition help improve the enforceability of laws and restore people’s trust in the rule of law,” she prime minister concluded.
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