House: No Discussion on Kalinak at Committee, Complaints Scheduled for Thursday

Bratislava, 11 June (TASR) - A motion concerning Defence Minister Robert Kalinak’s (Smer-SD) ownership of a house in Croatia was not discussed at the Conflict of Interest Committee meeting on Wednesday, nor was a motion against committee chair Veronika Remisova ('Slovakia-For the People-KU'), with coalition MPs pushing for both to be debated on Thursday (12 June), Remisova stated on Wednesday after the session. “Coalition MPs announced 45 minutes before the committee meeting that Minister Kalinak wouldn't be able to attend. They requested to postpone the agenda items. The opposition disagreed, but the coalition holds the majority in the committee,” Remisova told journalists. Remisova believes the minister wanted to postpone the committee to continue his “criminal campaign” against her. She repeated that Kalinak violated the constitutional law, admitted it himself, and said he would do it again. She described the complaint against her and the criminal charges as revenge. If the committee fines her, she intends to use all available means, including filing a case with the Constitutional Court. Remisova faces proceedings as the coalition believes she violated the law when she used confidential property-declaration information about Kalinak's wife to political ends. The complaint in Kalinak's case revolves around Kalinak's failure to include his wife's villa in Croatia in his property declaration in order allegedly to "protect his family". lin