BRATISLAVA, July 18, (WEBNOVINY) — Independent MP Anna Belousovova who was expelled from the opposition SNS after twenty years because she harshly criticized the SNS leadership for the 2010 election fiasco has started collecting signatures for her new party, Nation and Justice (NaS). In her statement, Belousovova informs that since first news were published on the establishment of a new party they have acquired already several thousand signatures before the official campaign started.
When collecting the citizens‘ signatures, representatives of the yet-to-be-established party want to explain priorities and goals of the party and learn from people what problems burden them. „I think that politicians are not omniscient and the intention of the new party is not to force solutions to the Slovak nation.
The signature collection has started in the east of Slovakia on Monday, which is not by accident, as Belousovova explained. She plans to gradually travel around the whole Slovakia. „However the collection of signatures is just the beginning. There is a lot of work ahead of us,” she stated. She believes that the NaS will exist as long as the Slovak nation and its desire for justice will be here.
The SNS leadership expelled former deputy chairperson Anna Belousovova from the party in February, allegedly because she was unable to come to terms with the situation after her power ambitions in the party could not be fulfilled. In the fall of 2010, Belousovova ran for the post of SNS leader at the party congress but she failed to defeat her party boss Jan Slota. After she had to go, the SNS leadership urged her to leave parliament and return her deputy mandate to the party but ultimately she remained in the parliament and continues leading the Parliamentary Committee for Human Rights. Belousovova announced the establishment of her own party on May 27. To register a new party however requires 15,000 signatures.
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