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A suspected hacker attack on the Slovak parliament on Thursday has not yet been proven. Parliament Speaker Boris Kollar announced on Friday that the malfunction of the entire computer system has now been resolved.

Parliament’s security officers were likely to launch criminal charges against those responsible once the cause of the outage was identified. “You have to determine whether it was intentional, negligent, or humanly stupid,” Kollar said.

Shortly after Kollar announced the postponement of all parliamentary votes, Liberal faction leader Anna Zemanova questioned the official version that there had been a hacker attack on the parliament. She did not rule out the possibility that MPs in the conservative-populist coalition government, which now functions as a minority cabinet, could themselves be responsible for the failure of the computer systems. In fact, there were several key votes that the governing parties were in danger of losing because several of their MPs were absent.

There was also a computer malfunction on Thursday in the Senate, the lower house of the Polish parliament. The Senate Press Service blamed a hacker attack. “The attack took place in several directions, including from Russia,” the statement said. Senate President Tomasz Grodzki said he was not sure whether the attack was related to the Senate passing a bill on Wednesday designating Russia as a terrorist state. (sda/dpa)