Remisova: Parliament in Gridlock for More Than Three Months, President Must Act

Bratislava, March 12 (TASR) - President Peter Pellegrini needs to ensure that constitutional bodies are run properly, MPs Veronika Remisova and Michal Sipos ('Slovakia'-For the People-KU alliance) declared at a press briefing on Wednesday, pointing out that Parliament has been unable to convene for more than three months and that hundreds of bills are in the queue for deliberation. "It's unacceptable for Parliament to be paralysed and the state non-functional. No laws are being passed, the government isn't governing, and the state is in complete disarray," said Remisova, underlining that Parliament has gone for almost a year without an elected chair. Remisova pointed out that whereas more than 280 bills were dealt with in January-March 2023, the governing coalition has managed to pass only three bills in the same period of 2025, two of them via fast-tracked procedures. According to Sipos, Parliament finds itself in completely unprecedented chaos, and although lawmakers receive high salaries, they've held deliberations on just three days in three months. In this context, Sipos proposed freezing the salaries of constitutional officials, while criticising what he sees as the president's inaction. "He should have convened government representatives and attempted to make Parliament operate normally a long time ago," said Sipos, who hopes that the next House session will open on March 25. mf/df