The National Council (NR) of the Slovak Republic should be a place of arguments and facts, not theatrics. Branislav Gröhling, member of parliament and head of the opposition SaS, thinks so. He stated this in an interview for TASR in response to the events in the parliament during the last December session.
“Parliament should be a place where the main tools will be words, arguments and facts. I don’t like theatrics within the NR SR,” he stated for TASR. He thinks that criticism can be verbally named. “We in SaS will not fight, but we will be bold in clearly stating that we are ruled by the mafia here,” he added.
During the December session, the Parliament also decided on an amendment to the Criminal Code. The opposition did not agree with several changes that were added to the amendment after the committee’s deliberations. Several opposition members, especially from the PS and Slovakia – For the People clubs, chanted the word “shame” and whistled on whistles in the plenary since the start of the vote on the amendment.
There was also a physical fight between some coalition and opposition legislators. Several opposition members justified their chanting and whistling during the vote as an “emergency”.
