Opposition to Resubmit No-Confidence Motion in Gov't Again

Bratislava, January 21 (TASR) - The opposition plans to collect signatures to convene yet another special emergency House session on the ouster of the government, Progressive Slovakia (PS) leader Michal Simecka announced on Tuesday. Simecka pointed out that once the coalition made the original session on Tuesday secret due to Prime Minister Robert Fico's (Smer-SD) decision to read out a report by the Slovak Intelligence Service (SIS) with confidential information, all opposition legislators responded by leaving the chamber and withdrawing the no-confidence motion [so as to make it possible under the Rules of Procedure to resubmit it without any delay -ed.note]. In Simecka's view, the governing coalition thwarted the session because it doesn't want arguments of the opposition to be voiced publicly. "If memory serves, nothing of this kind ever happened in the history of the Slovak Parliament before," he declared, adding that the coalition feared the debate and didn't want its own failures to surface into the spotlight. The PS chair hopes that the governing coalition won't thwart the next special emergency session of Parliament again. mf/mcs