The proposal to move the elections to the bodies of self -governing regions and elections to the municipal authorities of municipalities, which will still bear the democracy. He declared it Mayor of Bratislava Matúš Vallo In response to the proposal of the Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic Robert Fico (Smer-SD) to move elections to bodies of self-governing regions and elections to municipal self-government bodies for 2027.
“We have been elected for a four -year term, and it is democratic to make an account after that time. There is no other, higher reason to change it,” the mayor said.
At the same time, he pointed out that if the campaign for municipal elections were to be linked to the parliamentary one, urban themes would disappear from the public debate. “The municipal elections would then be overwhelmed by big politics, such as two genders or a dictation of Brussels. Only that this would really be the case,” Vallo noted.
Fico came to the Direction-SD working meeting over the weekend. He stated that for Slovakia the best transfer of elections to the bodies of self -governing regions and elections to the municipal self -government bodies for 2027 after the parliamentary elections would be. According to him, it is more practical. He thinks that municipal elections should also take into account what will happen in the elections to the National Council of the Slovak Republic. He appealed to the representatives of the Association of Towns and Municipalities of Slovakia (ZMOS) and the Association of Self -Governing Regions of Slovakia (SK8) to think about this proposal.
In response, the SK8 stated that he wanted to explain the reasons for such an adjustment from the Prime Minister. The possible extension of the current parliamentary term has already been rejected by the Union of Towns of Slovakia (ÚMS). ZMOS chief Jozef Božik responded that the change in the length of the parliamentary term should be decided before the following elections, not during the ongoing period. However, what the final opinion of ZMOS will be is, according to Božik, the subject of further discussion.
