BRATISLAVA, November 18, (WEBNOVINY) — The leader of the Ordinary People movement Igor Matovic spent the night from Thursday to Friday in a sleeping bag at SNP Square on Bratislava for the first time. He chose this form of protest to force political parties running in the March early elections to return 10 million euros to state coffers from the state contribution of EUR 20 million to which they will be entitled after the early race. “It was not that bad,“ he commented his first night outdoor. He plans to spend nights on the square until politicians fulfill his requirement. Matovic originally intended to sleep in a tent with his party mates and volunteers supporting his request. The City Hall however did not permit him to erect a tent at a public place. The City Hall argues that it does not want the SNP Square where a monument of the Slovak National Uprising of 1944 is situated to change into a tent camp and to be misused for pre-election fight.
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