Peter Pellegrini took the presidential oath required by the structure at a ceremonial session held within the Slovak Philharmonic constructing of the parliament, in entrance of Ivan Fiačan, the president of the Constitutional Court docket, and assumed the workplace of the president of the republic. In accordance with the structure, Fiačan confirmed the oath of workplace, thus Pellegrini took workplace.
“On my honor and conscience, I swear loyalty to the Slovak Republic. I’ll handle the welfare of the Slovak nation, nationwide minorities and ethnic teams residing within the Slovak Republic. I’ll do my work with the pursuits of the residents in thoughts, I’ll observe and shield the structure and the legal guidelines” Pellegrini quoted the nation’s structure. If he refused or had reservations about taking the oath, in response to the Structure, the presidential election can be invalid and he couldn’t be head of state.
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Pellegrini: for me, the worth is the state, the nation, the household and the particular person
Peter Pellegrini, the brand new president of the republic, values the state, the nation, the household and the particular person. Figuring out socially accepted values and a typical imaginative and prescient of the longer term is the most effective foundation for the nation to prosper even in tough instances, he acknowledged in his inauguration speech, including that he primarily desires to supply peace from the presidential palace.
“My political perception for a very long time is a powerful state that’s all the time a assist, by no means a burden to its residents and all the time serves them” Pellegrini mentioned. The state, he mentioned, should be capable to handle individuals “from the cradle to the grave”. It additionally must be robust sufficient to step in when the market crashes and supply a repair.
He identified that the state should even be robust from the skin. It should shield its borders, pursue its personal nation-state pursuits, and take its place on this planet, on the negotiating desk the place widespread, necessary selections are made.
Relating to the nationwide worth, Pellegrini totally agrees with the Structure. “The phrase nation can by no means fall sufferer to political correctness. I respect each single citizen of the Slovak Republic, no matter their nationality” – He instructed. The top of state acknowledged that he’s satisfied that the Slovak nation has the proper to the historic undeniable fact that the democratic Slovak Republic was established as a method of self-determination.
In accordance with Pellegrini, the household is the premise and probably the most fundamental unit of Slovak society. It isn’t the exterior, however primarily the interior qualities that needs to be thought of as the fundamental values. “Let it’s the true assist of relations, the background, or the stage for the transmission of values and the shaping of an individual” he famous.
In accordance with the president, the particular person needs to be the focus. “We’re not born with the identical skills, we’re not born into the identical circumstances. However everybody deserves the identical probability and the identical beginning line” – He instructed.
In his speech, Pellegrini acknowledged that the state of society is finally the results of the choices of every particular person citizen. In accordance with him, everybody ought to ask themselves what they’ll do for social reconciliation. “This can be a basic activity, confronted by politicians, opinion makers and the press. It’s the activity of all of us to search out the values that society can agree on and that everybody values.” – he mentioned, and added that, as head of state, he is able to do all the things for this.
The top of state acknowledged that as a instantly elected head of state, the second strongest mandate ever obliges him to be a assist for each citizen in each scenario. “I’m satisfied that we should convey again into the lifetime of society the fundamental components of respect for the state, state symbols and, on this sense, the workplace of the president of the republic” he added.
In accordance with Pellegrini, the top of state is the image of the nation, the consultant of the individuals at residence and on this planet, and an integral a part of Slovakia’s democratic and constitutional system. “We’ve to fill our statehood with one thing that each citizen of the Slovak Republic carries inside himself” he added.
(TASR/Felvidék.ma)
