Iveta Radicova has won the SDKU-DS party primaries and the top spot on the party's slate for the parliamentary elections in June. "I won't lie - there were predictions that I would fare slightly better than Ivan Miklos. I thank him for a fair contest and his promise of teamwork," said Radicova.

The opposition SDKU-DS party, which led the Slovak government of 2002-06, said on Wednesday that its chairman and former premier Mikulas Dzurinda will not be a candidate for the post of prime minister even if the party forms the new government after the June 12 election.

The Government led by Prime Minister Robert Fico has lost touch with reality in Slovakia, watching on passively as unemployment and corruption grow rapidly, and burdening Slovakia with heavy debts, representatives of the main opposition party SDKU-DS said at a press conference on Wednesday.

Slovak Police continues with the practice of sniffer dog trainings, however the procedure where an actual explosives sample is put into travellers' luggage has been banned, said Slovak Interior Minister Robert Kalinak at a press conference in Bratislava on Thursday.

After a break of more than a month, the first-class roads in Slovakia could soon be tolled again. This is according to Prime Minister Robert Fico, who made the announcement following his meeting with road transporters, representatives of the National Highway Company (NDS), road toll system provider SkyToll and Transport Minister.

Both the Coalition and the Opposition on Thursday managed to team up in Parliament, passing the broadly-discussed bill on the origin of property disclosure with 112 votes into second reading and, at the same time, enabling legislation was passed (109 votes) entailing a constitutional amendment.

According to a survey carried out by the MVK Agency and published on Monday, the strongest coalition party Smer-SD would have gained 42 percent of the votes if a general election had taken place in January.

By blocking important roads with their lorries, Slovak carriers wanted to express their discontent over the running of the newly-introduced tolling system. Last week, the protest evoked traffic jams in major cities over Slovakia.

Slovakia, Bratislava - Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico said he doesn't see any reason to dismiss Interior Minister Robert Kalinak over the explosives incident on January 2 – in which the airport security planted danger explosives in the luggage of unsuspecting passengers.

Vice-chair of the Christian Democrats (KDH) Daniel Lipsic told a press conference on Tuesday that he is about to submit a legal proposal on proving the origin of property to Parliament, as well as a constitutional amendment proposal that would enable the act to be passed.