MORNING NEWS HIGHLIGHTS - Monday, October 7, 2019 - 9 a.m.

TASR brings a quick morning overview of the most important events seen in Slovakia on the previous day (Sunday, October 6): DUKLA - Top politicians, foreign officials, war veterans and hundreds of other people gathered on Sunday at a memorial to the Battle of the Dukla Pass (Presov region) to commemorate the 75th anniversary of one of the most hard-fought battles of WWII in Central Europe. Five war veterans from Slovakia and four from the Czech Republic received commemorative medals from Defence Minister Peter Gajdos (SNS). In addition, one medal was awarded to a veteran in memoriam. BRATISLAVA - Health Minister Andrea Kalavska's (a Smer-SD nominee) plan for 'stratification of hospitals' isn't a proper reform, but only an attempt to systematise hospitals, while Kalavska still needs to persuade Smer about the project, said Parliamentary Chairman Andrej Danko (Slovak National Party/SNS) at TA3's programme 'V politike' (In Politics) on Sunday. BRATISLAVA - Extra-parliamentary alliance Progressive Slovakia-Together, which has produced President Zuzana Caputova and won the European Parliament elections in May, considers OLaNO as a possible coalition partner after the 2020 general election, although it seems to be complicated due to OLaNO chief Igor Matovic's personality, said PS leader Michal Truban on TA3's programme 'V politike' (In Politics) on Sunday. Conversely, Matovic reproached PS-Together for a series of promotion videos, in which the bloc lambasted the current Opposition for having done nothing for change in Slovakia. BRATISLAVA - Junior governing party Most-Hid, if it had known three years ago what it knows now, probably wouldn't have joined Smer-SD in Government, said Most-Hid chief Bela Bugar on TV Markiza's politics show 'Na telo' ('Tough Questions') on Sunday. Bugar was referring to a scandal involving former Smer nominee as deputy justice minister Monika Jankovska, who's been suspected by the media of corruption. The Most-Hid chairman believes that Jankovska shouldn't remain a judge after resignation from the post at the Justice Ministry a month ago. ko