The opposition Progressive Slovakia again submits a proposal to call an extraordinary session of the parliament, at which it wants to recall the indicted vice-chairman of the National Council of the Slovak Republic, Tibor Gašpar (Smer-SD). As the chairman of the movement, Michal Šimečka, said, they will not be deterred or intimidated by Prime Minister Robert Fico’s threats to dismiss the opposition vice-chairman of the NR SR Martin Dubéci.
“The coalition kicked off our proposal for September, but this will not wait. Tibor Gašpar has no business being the deputy speaker of the parliament for even a minute. From this position, he is trying to improve his situation before the court, while gambling with the reputation of the parliament,” pointed out Šimečka.
According to the PS leader, it is necessary to protect the good name of the National Council. “It’s nothing personal. But having the defendant Tibor Gašpar as the deputy chairman of the legislature is really too much. Of course, we don’t want to take away his parliamentary mandate, but if he cares about the reputation of the parliament, he must end his leadership as soon as possible,” Šimečka underlined.
According to Zuzana Mesterová, chairwoman of the PS parliamentary club, the reasons for Gašpar’s dismissal are ongoing. “He is accused of the fact that when he was the president of the Police Force, the police functioned as an organized criminal group. They fired businessmen, watched politicians and prosecutors, brought information from lustrations to Norbert Bödör. If Fico compares this case with a 10-year-old hoax, it is laughable,” concluded Mesterová.
Prime Minister Robert Fico on Monday, June 1, he emphasized that if the opposition initiates the dismissal of Tibor Gašpar from the post of Deputy Speaker of the National Council of the Slovak Republic, the Smer-SD party will initiate the dismissal of the opposition Deputy Speaker of the Parliament, Martin Dubéci. In this context, the prime minister reminded that Dubéci led the presidential campaign of Radoslav Procházka and used strange methods to finance it. “It’s so strange that Mr. Procházka painted it himself and connected it to black money bypassing a transparent account. The Internet still calls Mr. Dubéci the plastic Martin,” declared Fico.
At the same time, the Prime Minister called the prosecution of Gašpar in the Purgatory case manipulated and illegal. “Such a bold claim is not my subjective feeling, nor that of Tibor Gašpar. Our claim is based on the fact that the investigators and the supervisory prosecutor in the Óchistec case, such as (Ján) Čurilla and (Michal) Šurek, are today legally prosecuted for abusing their authority and breaking the law like on a treadmill in the pursuit of Tibor Gašpar in this case,” added Fico.
The Parliamentary Club of Progresívneho Slovenska (PS) again last week submitted a proposal to dismiss Tibor Gašpar from the position of vice-chairman of the National Council of the Slovak Republic. The reason, according to progressives, is that he is accused of serious acts of corruption and accused of organizing a criminal group within the police, which was supposed to protect the chosen ones and illegally monitor people. They also pointed out that the crown witness in the case of the murder of investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and the preparation of the murders of prosecutors Maroš Žilinka, Daniel Lipšic and Petr Šufliarske, Zoltán Andruskó, mentioned Gašpar in his testimony at the court. Specifically, according to his words, when he wanted to talk about the murder of the former mayor of Hurbanov László Basternák in the past, he allegedly received an indirect message that he might end up like Basternák. According to Andruskó, this message came from Gašpar, according to the intermediary.
