Friday’s information of the Ministry of Culture (MK) of the Slovak Republic to which the resort marked management of the Fund to support art (FPU) for the culprit of delay in the approval of subsidies, Rejects FPU director Róbert Špoták as a whole. He claims that the resort has presented a series in its press release serious inaccuracies, misleading to directly misleading claims.
Špoták denies that in connection with the proposal of members of the evaluation committees to proceed in violation of the lawit is opposed to the claims that he himself prevented the creation and meeting of the expert committee of the program Traditional Culture and Folklore. “The expert committee has not been elected on this program in December 2024,” says MK.
„At the meeting of 18 December, I informed the Council about the impossibility of compiling because of the lack of members, and I also pointed out the declaration of a call for nominations for membership of the Commission to this Program, ” He said Špoták, pointing out that before, in November last year, he tried to inform the situation in the program several times. “The Minister of Culture’s nominees did not repeatedly participated in meetings,” stressed.
He added that after receiving two relevant nominations in February 2025 he immediately submitted them for approval to the Council. “Based on the approval of these nominations, the Council had to choose an expert committee at its meeting on 27 March, but the Council was not quorum because of the non -participation of the Minister’s nominees,” said Špoták.
The call of the Chairman of the FPU Council Matúš Oľhu to make available applications for the granting of the subsidy in the aforementioned program, according to him, to the fact that The Council decided without prior assessment of applications by an expert committee. “This is in direct contradiction with the Fund Act, the Council of the Fund and the Statute of the Fund,” pointed out Špoták.
He added that the Fund’s office has documentation for all the above claims. “I want to believe that the claims listed in the press release of the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic result only from ignorance of the processes and functioning of the institution and are not stated with the aim of transferring to the Fund’s office responsibility for a situation in fact the result of an unprofessional change in the Fund Act,” declared the director of the FPU.
On Friday, the Ministry of Culture accused the management of the FPU of delay in deciding on subsidies for folklore events. The resort is blaming Špoták for the guilt of the delay in the creation of an expert committee assessing the application, the management of the fund also criticizes for the circumvention of internal rules and also for external communication towards the public, where MK, according to MK, has been given distorted or false information.
