BRATISLAVA, October 14, (WEBNOVINY) – Opposition SMER-SD leader Robert Fico announced on Friday that his party would support neither a reconstructed Cabinet composed of former ruling coalition parties nor a caretaker government. He told reporters that the caretaker Cabinet scenario was not possible. Fico cannot imagine that coalition deputies would find accord on a government of technocrats. The second option is that President Ivan Gasparovic tasks Iveta Radicova with leading the Cabinet until early elections slated for March 2012, but without ministers nominated by SaS, or a new government of four former ruling parties may be formed.
Fico thinks that the politically purest solution would be if Radicova’s Cabinet carried on until March without the SaS. Such a government does not have to ask the parliament for confidence or approval of its program statement, according to the SMER-SD boss.
SMER-SD will remain an opposition party until March 10 and will not bear responsibility for the present-day situation, which is to be blamed on the Iveta Radicova Cabinet. “Our interest is in stable governing based on [the outcome of] parliamentary elections,” Fico noted. SMER-SD does not want to join any overhauled government until March. It is not interested in being involved in the creation of the new Cabinet that will serve until early elections, either.
The deputy speaker of parliament highlighted that the chaos and uncertainty that rule the political scene resulted from the coalition’s inability to preserve a majority in parliament and to adopt key decisions, such as the bailout fund. “It is regrettable that this situation occurred only fifteen months after the elections, which indicates the quality offered in July 2010. No other solution but early elections exists,” he stated.
The opposition party greets the initiative of the Slovak president, who wants to seek a solution to the crisis that will ensure stability until the elections. Fico is convinced that leaders of parliamentary parties will find a constitutional solution to the stalemate at Monday’s meeting with the head of state.
SITA