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Vote 2010: Central Election Commission to look into vote buying
Slovakia’s Central Election Commission (ÚVK) stated that it has already been informed about alleged buying of Roma votes. ÚVK head Tatiana Janečková said that the commission has received reports of this kind and they will now investigate them and then deal with them if suspicions are confirmed, the TASR newswire reported.
Vote 2010: Suspicions of buying Roma votes in Prešov region are raised by not confirmed
Suspicions of Roma votes being bought in Prešov region’s villages of Žehna and Lemešany on Saturday afternoon are being investigated. The head of the district election commission in Prešov, Radovan Novotný, said that they had received notifications about the occurrences from members of precinct commissions in those two villages via telephone, the SITA newswire reported. The police, however, have not confirmed the allegations.
Vote 2010: Floods do not stop voters in hard-hit village of Nižná Myšľa
Preparation for Saturday’s balloting in Nižná Myšľa was not affected by last weekend’s floods and extensive landslides that hit the village, nearby Košice.
Vote 2010: Radičová hopes the centre-right will form the new government
The election leader of the largest opposition party, Iveta Radičová of the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union (SDKU), hopes that her party will achieve a better result in Saturday’s election than the opinion polls have recently suggested, she said, as reported by the SITA newswire, after she cast her vote in the precinct of Nova Dedinka outside Bratislava where she resides.
Vote 2010: PM Fico considers missing Smer ballot “a very bad joke”
Prime Minister Robert Fico cast his vote in the parliamentary election around 11:00 at a precinct in Bratislava’s Dlhe Diely neighbourhood (see photos at Slovak Spectator's Facebook page). An incident occurred during his voting in which his wife was given only 17 voting ballots instead of 18. As there are 18 parties running in the election, the candidates for each party are listed on separate ballots. The missing ballot was the ballot of Smer party of which Fico is chairman.
Vote 2010: TASR reports on voting at the polling stations in the Lunik IX housing project
Two precincts at the Košice housing project called Lunik IX which is inhabited primarily by Roma citizens were monitored by a three-member delegation of observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the TASR newswire reported, adding that the observers said that no irregularities in the balloting had emerged.
Vote 2010: Slovaks begin voting in parliamentary election at 7:00
The seventh democratic election for members of parliament in Slovakia since the fall of communism in 1989 has started. More than 5,900 polling stations opened across the country at 7:00 for the one-day vote. Polls will close at 22:00.
Prosecutor vote ends in acrimony
ANOTHER attempt by MPs to select Slovakia’s next general prosecutor, and fill one of the most powerful positions in the country, failed on December 2, leading to renewed tensions within the ruling coalition.
Hungarian Coalition Party receives funds for flood victims from Hungary
The government of Hungary has given Slovakia's Hungarian Coalition Party (SMK) €177,000 (50 million forints) to help people in areas affected by the devastating floods in Slovakia, SMK chairman Pál Csáky confirmed to the TASR newswire on Thursday, June 10, adding that he views this as a generous gesture and a display of European solidarity. According to Csáky, the financial aid won't only go to ethnic-Hungarians living in Slovakia, but to Slovaks as well. The money was transferred to SMK's account opened for the purpose of collecting money for the flood victims. "The first sums were provided by us, SMK MPs, and from the party's finances, and it's true that the Hungarian Government provided 50 million forints for this purpose," he said. It will be SMK who will decide how the financial means will be re-distributed. "We'll divide it on a territorial basis. We'll disclose who is given the financial means and I'm convinced that people of Slovak nationality will get some as well," assured Csáky.
COOP Jednota responds to claims about encouraging employees to vote for Most-Híd
The COOP Jednota retail chain on Thursday, June 10, rejected accusations levelled by the Hungarian Coalition Party (SMK) that it intends to check whether its employees vote for SMK's rival party, Most-Hid, in the general election this Saturday.
PM Fico files criminal complaint over publication of purported Smer funding recording
Prime Minister and Smer party chairman Robert Fico on Thursday, June 10, filed a criminal complaint with the Prosecutor-General's Office over a voice recording that allegedly attests to Smer's illicit funding, the TASR newswire was told when Fico left the Prosecutor-General's Office. Fico is angry about a voice recording that allegedly features him talking about using tens of millions of crowns in Smer's election campaign outside the party's official accounting.
Daily publishes a recording resembling Fico's voice
SHORTLY before the parliamentary elections, a leading Slovak daily received an audio recording featuring a voice strongly resembling that of Smer leader Robert Fico. The recording suggested that Smer had accepted undeclared campaign contributions from off-the-books sponsors. On the same day that the Sme daily posted the recording on its website, Smer boss and Prime Minister Fico said he would sue Sme’s editor-in-chief, referring to what he called an “anti-campaign”.
Parliament discusses fast-track amendments to help flooded areas
Slovakia’s parliament convened for an extraordinary session on Thursday, June 10, to discuss a package of draft amendments in expedited procedure to alleviate damages caused by this year’s extensive floods. Deputies approved the agenda after individual drafts were announced, the SITA newswire wrote.
Financial closure for 1st PPP package remains in danger
The latest deadline set for the financial closure of the first PPP package for construction and operation of five sections of D1 highway of 75 kilometres between Martin and Prešov is endangered again, the SITA newswire reported.
Slovak Education Minister to sue the Public Procurement Office
The Slovak Education Ministry is going to sue the country’s Public Procurement Office (ÚVO) in the upcoming days because it is publicly questioning the office’s professional skills, the SITA newswire reported.
New survey indicates SDĽ could be the kingmaker in the June election
According to a survey conducted by the ASA Agency (Agency for Social Analyses), nine political parties will make it to parliament after the June 12 election, along with a party not currently in parliament – the Party of the Democratic Left (SDĽ). For the first time the party would gain over six percent support, the SITA newswire wrote.
SMK files complaint with Central Election Commission about unused ballots
The Hungarian Coalition Party (SMK) on Wednesday, June 9, filed a complaint before the Central Election Commission (ÚVK) against its rival Slovak-Hungarian party, Most-Híd, the TASR newswire reported. SMK spokesperson Eva Dunajská told TASR that her party learned that employees of the retail chain COOP-Jednota in Dunajská Streda (Trnava region) had been told by their employer to bring all unused ballots to prove that they voted this coming Saturday for Most-Híd. Slovak voters will get ballots of all 18 parties with candidates and can mark only one ballot which goes in an envelope deposited with election officials.
Bratislava Airport’s new terminal opens
The new terminal at Bratislava's M.R. Štefánik Airport was officially opened on Wednesday, June 9 and the facility should see its first airline passengers on Thursday, the TASR newswire reported The terminal will be extended by the old terminal (used from 1970 until now) when its remodelling is completed sometime within the next 12 months and raise its capacity to 5 million travellers a year from 3.5 million.
Preliminary estimate puts Slovakia’s flood damage in May and June at €267 million
The damage to property caused by the floods that hit Slovakia in May and early June is estimated to total €267.8 million, including €156.8 million and €73 million in the hardest hit regions of Košice and Nitra, respectively, the Environment Ministry told the Government in a report on Wednesday, June 9, the TASR newswire wrote. The estimates are preliminary, as many flood-affected areas are not yet accessible. Flood-related preventive and rescue operations, which have involved 2,200-plus water-company workers, more than 3,200 fire fighters, 520 police and around 2,800 soldiers, are reckoned to have cost another €14 million.
Bugár of Most-Hid comments on special parliamentary session
Convening a parliamentary session two days before the general election to delve into a reduction in state contributions for political parties – initiated by the still-governing coalition (Smer, the Slovak National Party and the Movement for Democratic Slovakia) – is sheer populism, Béla Bugár, the chairman of the extra-parliamentary party Most-Híd said on June 9, according to the TASR newswire.
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