President Zuzana Čaputová vetoed an amendment on the 50-day moratorium on polls on November 6, 2019 (source: TASR)
Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová has stood up against an amendment on a 50-day moratorium concerning pre-election polls. She thus joined the critical voices sounding from a large part of the Slovak public and opposition parties, but also PM Peter Pellegrini and Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajčák.
“I am convinced, and this is also the reason why I have vetoed the relevant provision, that it contradicts several rights guaranteed by the Constitution,” the President said, as quoted by the TASR newswire on November 6.
Coalition and other MPs passed this amendment to the law on the election campaign, extending the pre-election ban on releasing polls from 14 to 50 days, on October 28.
President Čaputová added she will file a motion with the Constitutional Court if the parliament does not agree with her comments and overrides her veto.
“At the same time, I will ask the Constitutional Court to suspend this provision,” she said, as quoted by TASR.
