SUMMARY - Tuesday, January 24, 2023 - 9 p.m.

BERLIN - Slovak President Zuzana Caputova received the Schwarzkopf Europe Award in Berlin on Tuesday, TASR learnt from its correspondent on the same day. BRATISLAVA - Local governments will turn off public lighting for half an hour on the evening of January 30 in order to express their dissatisfaction with the fact that the government isn't addressing their issues, representatives of towns agreed on this on Tuesday at an online meeting of the Chamber of Towns of the Slovak Towns and Villages Association (ZMOS), TASR was told by ZMOS Chamber of Towns head and ZMOS vice-chairman Jozef Bozik. BRATISLAVA - The date of an early parliamentary election should be postponed to September so that the law enforcement bodies have time to investigate crimes, OLaNO leader Igor Matovic said in Parliament during the discussion on an amendment to the Constitution. BRATISLAVA - If the government fails in the matter of the outpatient sector, it will be a reason for me to act, President Zuzana Caputova stated in connection with additional funding of the outpatient sector. BRATISLAVA - President Zuzana Caputova doesn't yet see a reason to attend sessions of the interim government, explaining that the decision-making process on the points which she should comment on due to the limited powers of the cabinet, takes place before the government meets. BRATISLAVA - MPs operating within the extra-parliamentary Voice-SD party won't back an amending proposal to an amendment to the Slovak Constitution, submitted by representatives of the former governing coalition, as it uselessly complicates the whole situation, Voice-SD leader Peter Pellegrini said during the parliamentary debate on the amendment. BRATISLAVA - Independent MPs from the far-right LSNS and extra-parliamentary Republic party won't back an amending proposal to an amendment to the Slovak Constitution sponsored by ex-minister of justice Maria Kolikova (Freedom and Solidarity/SaS). BRATISLAVA - Making an early parliamentary election conditional on maintaining the current electoral law is unacceptable for the extra-parliamentary Christian Democratic Movement (KDH). am