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BRATISLAVA, January 8, (SITA) NARODNA OBRODA daily devotes its commentary Benefits as Priorities? (pg. 4) to benefits that Prime Minister Dzurinda distributed among members of the Slovak Cabinet including two resigned ministers. The daily writes that the public does not reproach them for receiving benefits but for the fact that they are failing to meet their pre-election promises. SME daily writes about this issue in It Has to Burn Several Times, (pg. 4).
The daily criticizes the cabinet that it refused to reveal the sums of benefits what gives wings to fantasy of the public and that ministers firstly froze their wages in order to compensate themselves later with benefits. Prime Ministers spokesperson Martin Lengyel told PRACA daily in Meciars Cabinet Took Bigger Money, (pg. 2), that the average benefit of a member of the Dzurindas cabinet was 134,300 SK for 1999. He added that the average benefit of a member of the Meciars cabinet was 160,000 SKK in 1996, 187,500 SKK in 1997 and 152,500 SKK for nine months of 1998. SME daily comments on signals on emerging of new Christian democrats in Path to Power or into Opposition? (pg. 4). The daily writes that leaking signals that Ivan Simko should be behind this imply that the atomization process within the right camp of the political spectrum has not concluded so far. The signing of the coalition agreement between heads of parent SDK parties and the SDK head before Christmas has not brought in a desired settlement of relations within the SDK. Potential resolution of Simko, with negative experiences from his failed pro-reform movements within the Christian-Democratic Movement (KDH), to establish a new party, is quite well-based, however, it is questionable whether the new party would be successful. Efforts of KDH chair Jan Carnogursky to have a small but united party is also legitimate, but Carnogursky is forgetting that such a KDH could fail to enter the parliament in next parliamentary elections. The third line in Christian Democrats endeavoring to have a strong KDH with cooperating personalities (Dzurinda, Carnogursky, Palko and Simko) could have a chance only when it manages to persuade voters and KDH members that such a KDH was the strongest and the most luring for voters. NARODNA OBRODA daily interviews Jaroslav Volf, a parliamentary member for the Slovak Democratic Coalition, on pay-off of National Property Funds (FNM) bonds scheduled for 2001 in Maturity of FNM Bonds Could Be Postponed, (pg. 4). Volf indicates that this problem has not been solved so far while the cabinet is scheduled to discuss it on January 12. Volf supports accelerated privatization of strategic companies while this will solve gap in investments in these companies and fill the state budget. He also supports solutions as to use bonds for supplementary pension insurance, construction savings, payment of taxes or to replace them with bonds with advantageous rates and prolonged maturity. PRAVDA daily in its commentary Painful but Inevitable Restrictions, (pg. 6) supports restrictions in the countrys health care in order to improve its effectiveness. It claims that Slovakia has not enough money for the so-far expansive and ineffective health care. Opposition SLOVENSKA REPUBLIKA daily calls the current period of time to be The Blackest Time for Our Justice, (pg. 5) when Justice Minister Jan Carnogursky and his company has come with an initiative to enact a constitutional law annulling amnesties of Vladimir Meciar.
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