About the proposal Direction MPs were supposed to start discussing the cancellation of postal elections from abroad before the weekend, but the debate at Friday’s session ended before it could really get going.
Deputy Speaker of the Parliament Andrej Danek z CIS because they angered the papers with signatures from the online petition against the proposed change, which were brought to the hall by deputies from the opposition Progressive Slovakia.
Therefore, Danko, from the position of chairman, expelled the deputy from the hall PS Zuzana Mesterová. After the meeting of the parliamentary board, they finally interrupted the Friday meeting.
(source: TASR)
The opposition strongly criticizes the changes in the electoral laws, and when the election by mail is cancelled, it points to the limitation of the possibility to vote and thus the curtailment of the right to vote of citizens who are not in Slovakia on the day of the election.
Even in the coalition, however, they are not united on the proposed electoral changes. The coalition SNS most recently conditions the adoption of the law by the fact that the candidate can “circle” to a higher position on the candidate list only if he achieves at least eight percent of the number of votes that the party receives in the elections. Currently, a candidate moves up to an elective position when he or she receives three percent of the vote for his or her political party.
“It is a fundamental condition for the SNS to pass the entire law. If we do not pass it, we will not support the law,” said SNS MP Roman Michelko.
In Smer, they see a problem in this.
SNS added up the percentages
SNS has already proposed a change in the rules of preference circles in the parliament – last year it wanted a candidate to need seven percent to re-circle, but the MPs did not approve the proposal.
In the coalition, they have an agreement in the first reading on the support of the parliamentary proposal of Smer, which, in addition to the election from abroad, also deals with the increase of the election deposit. However, in the second reading, SNS wants to come up with its own amending proposal.
