The dysfunctional state also hinders politicians, they are fleeing to Croatia
Politicians' property declarations are not leisure activity.
The author works at the Stop the Corruption Foundation.
An ordinary citizen in Slovakia in regional cities is no longer able to buy his own property. Even with mortgage. There are often no two salaries and thirty years of repayment for ever rising prices.
And no longer has an ordinary we a border to the villa by the sea in Croatia. The Slovak or Croatian bank would probably not even lend him to it.
Vilky in Croatia are on course
Apparently, several Slovak top politicians and their families do not have such a problem. Million villas in lucrative locations and the most beautiful sea views in this clientele literally go to the dragon.
Parliament's deputies Ľubomír Vážny, Peter Skník, Anton Middlek, Kaliňák's wife and Sakova ex -husband, who currently heads the railways, as well as other relatives of contemporary senior officials.
They have already invested in the purchase of Croatian real estate. And their neighbors are oligarchs as Jaroslav Haščák and Jozef Brhel.
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Such a purchase would not be anything special, and the rest of us could only be silent to politicians, if some did not ignore the law. And straight constitutional.
The Constitutional Act on the Protection of the Public Interest in the exercise of the functions of public officials at the outset speaks not only of « duties and restrictions » for public officials in order to « prevent the inconsistency of the personal interest of the official with the public interest », but also of « the responsibility of the official for failure to fulfill or breach » this obligation.
In other words, this Act has been obliged to announce its income every year for 20 years. Not to endanger their privacy. But to make it possible to control whether they are interested in the public and therefore do not abuse the function more to enrich their enrichment than for the well -being of all of us.
Why do politicians have a problem with confessions
However, some politicians obviously have a problem with this duty.
« My decision to do this in the property declaration was therefore absolutely correct, and I protected a higher interest in the sense of the Constitution, » he apologized in the video Minister of Defense Robert Kalinakwhy he did not mention the villa in Croatia for years in his confession.
He added that information about family and children is to be not published by law to protect privacy.
Which is also observed in practice. Although politicians are obliged to notify the parliamentary committee of their family members, including real estate written on them, these annexes are secret. The data is not published and the media and citizens are normally not available.
Minister of Defense Robert Kalinak. (Source: SITA)Kaliňák further for the portal Aktuality.sk He added that « there is no doubt that there was no increase in property, but the transformation of the money I admitted in the past ».
However, this claim cannot be verified again, as the property was not stated there. Obviously, Kalinak is aware of his trouble. For the newspaper Joj, he admitted that he will also heal several salaries as a fine.
Fico real estate has not admitted for a long time
The Croatian Virtue case was launched by local media information that the Prime Minister also bought a property in this country Robert Fico. He denied through social networks that he would buy land in the country and build a villa on it.
In general, Fico has a long -term lax approach to acknowledging its properties. Starting with the foggy lease of the apartment from later convicted tax fraud Ladislav Bašternák. The apartment was located on one of the most expensive Bratislava addresses.
Bonaparte complex, where Prime Minister Robert Fico was. The apartment also had a mailbox company from Cyprus, guests Veronika Bernadičová, assistant to Direction MEP Ľubice Rošková. (Source: SME/Jozef Jakubco)
Apartment building Sokol Residence, where Robert Fico bought an apartment from Dušan Munka. (Source: Marko Erd)Consequently, in the confession, he did not mention the use mansion in Vinosads associated with Brhel. The confession appeared only recently bought apartment from the party colleague Dušan Muňek. “I bought an apartment, a dot. What is it behind the topic, ”he beat the questions to the resources for an apartment a year ago Fico in JOJ 24.
It is certainly the topic. And not only media, but also legal. Because if a politician uses luxury real estate, which apparently his officially awarded income is not enough, or even the property does not mention in his confession, there are automatically there are several questions: where he had it, why it keeps it and how it could affect the performance of his function.
The politician also has duties, not just the rights
Entry into politics is no obligation for anyone. If someone is worried about their family or does not want to name what they own for other reasons, they don't have to go to politics.
However, if someone is already getting a mandate from people, they gain great power and influence. But also duties and responsibility. Just as an ordinary person is responsible for his work to his company, as an entrepreneur receives an assessment from his customers or suppliers.
The constitutional law and the publication of politicians' property is one of such obligations. If a politician makes it easier or downplaying, the feeling that he wants to keep something back, it is just growing in the public.
