SNS President Andrej Danko cannot imagine joining the Office of the Government (ÚV) of the Slovak Republic as long as Miroslav Lajčák is in the position of adviser to the Prime Minister. Not even in the case of Monday’s (November 24) coalition council. As well as the chairman of SaS Branislav Gröhling, he still insists on Lajčák leaving his post. They stated it in the STVR discussion show Sobotné dialogy.
“I can’t imagine that I will step into the Central Committee when he is supposed to be an adviser to the Prime Minister, although the Prime Minister has the right to choose it, but being an adviser for national security is not just an adviser to the Prime Minister,” said Danko, saying that the government is everyone’s body. “So I insist that Lajčák must leave his position,” he added.
At the same time, he pointed out that the coalition council can meet not only at the ÚV, but also in the parliament. “For me, it is a gesture of principle and a political gesture, politics is about gestures. But in any case, on Monday it will be a coalition council for the course of the National Council of the Slovak Republic, and there it will be more about a meeting of those who head the parliamentary club.” stated.
According to Gröhling, one should think about what advisers Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) has. “Because one of those advisors is Mr. Lajčák, and it is a common case with Epstein. The other advisor is, for example, Mr. Kaliňák, Erik Kaliňák Jr., who says that he likes him or likes to use profanity and doesn’t mind it at all.” criticized.
He repeated that Lajčák’s published communication with American financier Jeffrey Epstein was unprofessional. “I don’t think this is professional, this is diplomatic, that a diplomat at such a high level should inform in such a way some billionaire who is also being prosecuted,” added Gröhling.
The coalition SNS and representatives of the opposition called on the prime minister to end cooperation with his adviser Miroslav Lajčák. They appeal to this in connection with his communications with Epstein. In the published documents related to the case of the deceased American financier convicted of sexual crimes, there is also an e-mail communication that allegedly took place between the then Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic Lajčák and Epstein.
Lajčák told TASR that in the past he communicated with the financier only socially as part of his diplomatic duties. The decision on whether Lajčák will end his post as advisor to the Prime Minister will be made on Wednesday (November 26).
