House: MPs to Seek Sutaj Estok's Ouster on Monday with New Motion

Bratislava, November 29 (TASR) - Parliament will again seek Interior Minister Matus Sutaj Estok's (Voice-SD) ouster at 9 a.m. on Monday (December 2), as a new special House session with this point on the agenda has been convened for that day, the Parliament Office's communications department informed TASR on Friday. The new session was initiated by the opposition. MPs were supposed to vote on the minister's dismissal on a previous motion this week, but Parliament wasn't quorate, and the coalition adjourned that motion until February. The opposition MPs in their new motion reiterated the same reasons for the minister's dismissal as they presented during the first attempt to oust him. They criticise him for the current situation in the Police Corps, for neglecting the police brutality problem and for a lack of action when it comes to bomb threats at schools. They also accuse him of bullying investigators and spreading hoaxes. The opposition MPs claim that the interior minister should have accepted political responsibility following the incident that resulted in charges being pressed against a Kosice police officer for killing a detainee. They also blame him for police crackdowns that have been accompanied by brutal behaviour among police officers. Premier Robert Fico (Smer-SD) stated that the coalition allowed the opening of Tuesday's (November 26) special session on the no-confidence motion in Sutaj Estok, adding that that session has been adjourned until February, however, because the opposition refused to cooperate constructively after the debate on the proposal had been reduced to 12 hours. ko/df