Galko's bid for house Vice-chair rejected

Parliament turned down the candidacy of opposition MP Lubomir Galko (Freedom and Solidarity) for the post of House vice-chair in its secret vote on Thursday. "Only brute force prevails here, behind which there is nothing but spite, hatred and the failure to honour any agreements," claimed Galko, adding that the present Parliament lacks any political culture. Prior to the election, the governing Smer-SD rejected the bid of the opposition MP Lubomir Galko (SaS) for the post of Parliamentary Vice-chairman, calling it a travesty of democracy. "We find it outrageous that such a person has the chutzpah to ask parliament for support, when he - as defence minister (2010-11) - was demonstrably behind the surveillance of journalists, opposition politicians, his own secretary and even a completely innocent truck driver of Hungarian ethnicity," the party wrote in its social network post. Galko was nominated to the post by SaS, meant to replace Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová in the wake of her election to the European Parliament.