In parliament, they discuss the draft defense agreement: Will the agreement with the USA pass ?! – NEW TIME

MEPs will start a debate on whether to accept or reject the agreement. Until the last moment, however, it was not clear whether the coalition would collect the required number of votes. The opposition, along with some activists, also planned protests in front of parliament today to persuade lawmakers not to vote for the treaty.

They claim that it is disadvantageous and risky. Minister of Defense Jaroslav Naď has repeated several times in recent weeks that Slovakia is not losing sovereignty and this is a technical agreement that the Smer government has begun to negotiate. However, the coalition must obtain an absolute majority of the deputies present in order for the agreement to pass and thus reach the table of the president.

Prime Minister Eduard Heger said on Monday that he believed that the defense agreement would pass the National Council of the Slovak Republic. “Now is the time when parliament must show that when it comes to Slovakia’s security, we will not move away,” He said that he believed that all MEPs would vote in favor of the agreement. The attitude We are a family can be a problem. President Boris Kollár announced that five to seven members of the movement were opposed to it. He recalled that SaS and Za lidí announced support for the agreement.

The answers of the Ministers of Defense and Foreign Affairs about the agreement were verified by the We Are the Family movement, and Kollár also spoke to the Attorney General about the agreement. MEP We are a family of Patrick Linhart, however, he said he did not see “No reason to sign more treaties once we are in that NATO.” Juraj Šeliga, MP for People, also talks about the close vote. According to him, this will be a consequence of the great pressure to be put on the deputies agreeing to conclude the treaty.

The opposition around Smer, Hlas or ĽSNS and the Republic refuses to support the agreement. Peter Pellegrini says there are no disputed doubts about compliance with the constitution. Last week, he signed an agreement in Washington with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. “It’s clear to international law, defense or diplomats – no bases, no nuclear weapons or no loss of sovereignty. “ said Nad. President Zuzana Čaputová conditioned her signature by stating directly in the clause that this did not mean the creation of a military base or the automatic presence of US soldiers or the renunciation of criminal jurisdiction in favor of the Americans.