Opposition party Smer-SD has set up a shadow cabinet to scrutinise in more detail the activities of the current coalition government. By setting up the shadow cabinet, Smer-SD will be more organised in contesting and questioning the work of the government.
Party chairman Robert Fico presented the party’s new shadow cabinet yesterday, saying he expected it to monitor the government, contest decisions that it does not agree with and present alternative solutions where it deems fit, like the issues of price hikes and the revision to the Labour Code.
The Smer-SD shadow cabinet is mostly made up of former ministers under the former government, and is as follows:
Robert Kalinak – interior issues
Marek Masaric – culture
Jan Počiatek – finance
Robert Madej – justice
Stanislav Becik – agriculture
Lubomir Jahnatek – economy
Jaroslav Baska – defence
Dusan Caplovic – education
Lubomir Vazny – transport
Richard Rasi – health
Zuzana Zvolenska – labour
Olga Algayerova – foreign affairs
Olga Nachtmannova – human rights and minorities
Peter Kazimir – social affairs and economy