OĽANO Wants to Cover 500 Euros for Participation in the Elections with Taxes for Refineries

Bratislava, February 24 (TASR) – The OĽANO movement wants to cover the 500 euro reward for participation in the elections in the state budget with an extraordinary tax for refineries The proposal to increase and extend its validity is already in the second reading in the National Council (NR) of the Slovak Republic and should be voted on at the next meeting in March.

On Friday, the chairman of the OĽANO movement, Igor Matovič, informed about this at a press conference, appealing to the deputies to support the proposal "Today is a symbolic date in that it is a year since the start of the war and all citizens of the Slovak Republic have huge expenses in connection with the war," said Matovič.

According to him, the war costs us billions of euros "Companies that process Russian oil have a significant profit from the war.

We, as the Slovak Republic, with 5 4 million inhabitants, have the moral right to tax this profit from the war and use it for a good purpose, " said Matovič.

The solidarity contribution from activities in the oil, natural gas, coal and refinery sectors could be increased from 55% to 70% of profit by an amendment to the act on solidarity contribution It should be paid not only for the tax period of the previous year, but also this year .

According to the chairman of the OĽANO movement, the net profit from the extraordinary tax for refineries for last year is approximately 400 million euros Matovič said on Friday that he would agree to the extraordinary tax for refineries at the level of 95%, as it is in Hungary.

Matovič's proposal to finance the reward for participating in the elections was criticized by the chairman of the opposition party Smer-SD Robert Fico "We cannot consider Matovič a judicial person.

He is not healthy," said Fico Smer-SD will not support the proposal for a reward of 500 euros.

"It is the right to participate in elections Who wants, comes, who wants, doesn't come" emphasized Fico.

He added that if Matovič wants to buy all the Roma in Slovakia, he should find a more sophisticated way than giving them 500 euros .