Slovakia: Smer moves to insert water protection into constitution

<p>The ruling Smer party is serious about its plan to add a ban on exporting water into the country’s constitution, a move which came in response to a populist outcry over new rules regulating the sale of Slovak water abroad which are being discussed by lawmakers. The Environment Ministry has already sent the draft to an interdepartmental review, opening it up to comments.</p><p><br><br>Speculation is rampant as to which party might lend the necessary helping hand to Smer to change the constitution for the second time in a matter of months. Smer needs 90 votes in the 150-seat parliament to do so, while the party itself holds 83 mandates.</p>
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