The opposition movement Slovakia, together with the SaS and KDH, wants to object to the validity of a shortened legislative procedure in connection with the third package of consolidation measures in the Constitutional Court. On Wednesday, opposition deputies Igor Matovič and Július Jakab (both Slovakia, for people, Ú) stated this at a press briefing.
- The opposition parties want to challenge the legislative proceedings of the court.
- The submission has support for SaS, KDH and Movement Slovakia.
- They argue that the government insufficiently manages the country’s budget.
- Matovic emphasizes positive results during his rule.
- It draws attention to a significant increase in debt and deficit in 2022.
“We have promised signatures from Freedom and Solidarity and also from the KDH to file a submission to the Constitutional Court on the invalidity of the shortened legislative proceedings,” Jakab said that the Slovakia movement will no longer tolerate how the current government cannot manage the budget and makes the largest debt and deficit within the EU countries.
Matovic added that between 2016 and 2019, when the coalition party Smer-SD ruled, Slovakia ended up in the ranking of EU Member States on average to 20 to 21th place from the end, with the worst result. From 2020 to 2023, when Matovič was the head of the state, the Slovak Republic placed on average 11th place, even though there was a Pandemic of Covid-19, the war broke out in Ukraine and the food prices have risen sharply. Last year, the country finished in this ranking 24th place and this year, according to Matovič’s conversion, it should occupy 24 or 25 from the end.
“We were able to finance everything with spending € 23.5 billion,” Matovič specified. At the same time, he pointed out that the current government has an extra EUR 10.4 billion, and it does not have to deal with any crises that need to be financed. In 2022, Slovakia’s debt was EUR 1.8 billion, but the current government has made it four times larger.
“The Council for Budgetary Liability, or directly the Ministry of Finance or the National Bank of Slovakia, say that the debt or deficit will be somewhere around 5.1 % to 5.2 %, and that is EUR 7.2 billion,” He added Matovic.
