The President will not sign the Covid amnesty, the Prime Minister recommends overriding his veto

Pellegrini has reservations about the law.

Slovak President Peter Pellegrini has returned to the Chamber of Deputies a bill on compensation for people who received fines for not complying with epidemic restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic or who paid for meals in quarantine facilities during this period. The presidential office informed ČTK about this today. The head of state suggested to the deputies that they only leave the option of compensating people for mandatory quarantine.

The head of state is bothered by blanket compensation

Compensation for people who have been fined in Slovakia for not complying with anti-epidemic restrictions has been pushed by the governing coalition. It has enough votes in the House to overcome a presidential veto.

Slovak President Peter Pellegrini will not sign the Fico government's COVID amnesty law and will return it to parliament for consideration. Robert Fico announced after his re-election that he would pay compensation to those who were fined for violating COVID rules. Finally, the Slovak National Council members adopted the law in early April. However, the president considers it a dangerous precedent if the new law were to compensate everyone who w…

…. According to him, the government and parliament have embarked on “a dangerous path of compensating people who knowingly violated the law.” He does not agree with compensating everyone who did not respect the measures during the pandemic. “Every single person who violated the regulations in force at the time and was punished for it by law should be compensated today under the new law.…