Deputies of the ruling coalition are to approve the revised wording of the disputed amendment to social insurance law in parliament. Labor Minister Viera Tomanova will send the new version, which is the outcome of today's three-hour marathon of talks among leaders of SMER-SD, the SNS and the LS-HZDS, to the second reading. Speaker of Parliament Pavol Paska, who substituted for an ill Prime Minister Robert Fico, and LS-HZDS Chairman Vladimir Meciar informed the press of the result of the coalition talks.
Mr. Paska considers it important that the leaders agreed on the opening of the second capitalization pillar of the pension saving system for six months, during which savers will be able to quit or enter the pillar on a voluntary basis. The redistribution of payment to the first, pay-as-you-go pillar and the capitalization pillar will be the subject of another, more complex amendment that should be ready in the spring, according to the Speaker of Parliament.
The Coalition Council also agreed on Tuesday to support the draft amendment to the law on health insurance companies. Mr. Paska specified that they still need to technically adjust some prerequisites pertaining to handling a hypothetical positive economic result of health insurers and some preconditions related to license granting. Mr. Meciar said that public concerns about the new law are needless. "If parliament approves the text that we submit, all parties will be satisfied and the law will comply with the idea of the government program statement and will also constitute a reasonable compromise," he said.
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