BRATISLAVA, February 6, (WEBNOVINY) — SDKU-DS Chairman Mikulas Dzurinda has affirmed over the weekend that “SMER was not shooting in the air” when it drew attention to the alleged meeting of Dzurinda with partner of the private equity group Penta Jaroslav Hascak, believes opposition SMER-SD leader Robert Fico. Dzurinda admitted on Sunday that such meeting really took place at the house of Iveta Radicova. “What else can anyone debate with a presidential candidate ahead of presidential elections than financial support and what other meaning could that meeting have,” Fico would like to know. He added that everyone counted on Radicova’s triumph and she undoubtedly had to raise some money for the campaign. If Dzurinda wanted to meet with Hascak, he could have do so anywhere else and not in the house of Iveta Radicova.
Then again, the SMER-SD leader is yet expected to clarify whether or not he was in the wiretapped apartment described in the Gorilla file. Fico just repeated that SMER-SD was an opposition party at that time. “This is a case from 2005 and 2006. We had no influence on anything. Do not want us to make statements that would place us on the same level with those that ruled [the country] then,” he added. Fico sees no chance for the right to clean the house. He believes that the right wing parties now hope that they will moderate the extent of their responsibility and the crisis, which is rocking the boat, by sullying others.
Fico sees a threat ensuing from the incapacity of the rightist parties and its sinking popularity that could turn Parliament, which has been in a disastrous state during the past eighteen months, into “a loony bin.” If parties without a seat, values and parties establish just with marketing purposes make it into Parliament, they will provide the foundation for unbelievable instability, growth of extremism and last-resort solutions in Parliament.
SITA