of a controversial law. The opposition took issue with Paska's interference in the amendment to the social insurance law, approved by the parliament in a chaotic vote with two contradictory amending proposals. The draft bill was supposed to be published on the internet within three days after the vote. Paška admitted that he ordered the legislative department to ignore parliament's vote and publish a version that did not the original proposal. Katarína Kližanová Rýsová, spokesperson from the Smer-SD party called the motion to dismiss Paska "ridiculous". On 27 November Paska survived the motion. Out of 111 MPs present in 150-member parliament, 59 supported the motion. The opposition would have needed 76 votes to succeed in its attempt to oust the Speaker of Parliament. Life outside politics Paška was married and had two sons, Michal and Matus. In November 2015 his nephews Martin Paška, the director at Bytový podnik mesta Košice (BPMK) the city housing management company in Košice; his brother Branislav, an employee at Košice University Hospital and their third brother Maroš, a police officer, attended a birthday party. After returning from the party, they first harassed and then brutally attacked a woman and her partner in front of the pizza restaurant. After the video of the attack leaked to the public, Martin Paška, Branislav Paška and Maroš Paška have lost their respective jobs in public sector. After claiming they were innocent, they were sentenced in 2019 to financial penalty and probation for six months. He was a member of Prague Society for International Cooperation, a respected NGO whose main goals are networking and the development of a new generation of responsible, well-informed leaders and thinkers and a Member of the Advisory Board of the Global Panel Foundation - America. References External links Paška's page on the Homepage of the National Council 1958 births 2018 deaths Politicians from Košice Direction – Social Democracy politicians Speakers of the National Council (Slovakia) Members of the National Council (Slovakia) 2002-2006 Members of the National Council (Slovakia) 2006-2010 Members of the National Council (Slovakia) 2010-2012 Members of the National Council (Slovakia) 2012-2016