Rasi Has No Information on How Ferencak Will Vote on Constitutional Amendment

(STVR, 'O 5 minut 12', 7 September) I have no information on how MP Jan Ferencak will vote on the constitutional amendment, Parliamentary Chair Richard Rasi (both Voice-SD) said on STVR's discussion programme 'O 5 minut 12' (Five Minutes to Twelve) on Sunday. The House chair also thinks that the increase in the quorum for pushing through constitutional changes from 90 to 100 MPs won't be greenlighted in Parliament. Leader of the opposition Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) party Branislav Groehling criticised the draft new parliamentary Rules of Procedure and said that the party's MPs won't support it. "They don't want to go to work, they want the meeting to be very quick, let it go quickly, let nobody even care," said Groehling, adding that the code of ethics announced by the coalition will be a 'muzzle' law. Rasi, on the other hand, sees the new Rules of Procedure as a benefit. "They introduce the possibility of using visual aids, after all this is a fundamental thing, where the type, the form is determined, so that MPs can show what they are saying also with help of visual aids," he said. The parliamentary chair also said that he trusts scientists from the Slovak Academy of Sciences, who had refuted the claims of Government Proxy for Investigating the Management of the COVID-19 Pandemic Peter Kotlar, by means of an analysis. The SaS chairman said that Kotlar has no business in this post and the most senior constitutional officials should send a clear signal. am