BRATISLAVA, July 28, (WEBNOVINY) — Giving a place on the party’s ballot to Igor Matovic, a representative of the group that calls itself „Ordinary People“ was a mistake, believes the chairman of the Freedom and Solidarity Party (SaS) Richard Sulik. „I do not perceive him as a correct partner,“ Sulik emphasized. Matovic signed a written commitment not to quit the deputy faction, Sulik recapped. „We helped him get into the Parliament, and he is so enthusiastic about it now,“ Sulik noted, and said that Matovic likes to see himself in the media and loves reading about himself; it does him well. To Matovic’s criticism that not all of the points required by him occurred in the program statement, Sulik responded that it contains more than 20 of those points. „It started when he [Matovic] had 22 points, which I approved at the beginning of the agreement, and we agreed in writing that any other point can be vetoed by me. Shortly afterwards, he came and pulled out 100 points,“ Sulik emphasized. “Over some of them, the brain should stop working, and some of them would be better written by my three years old son Hugo,“ he said.
Sulik noted that as chairman of the faction he has not received any notification to the alleged departure of Matovic from the deputy faction. Jozef Viskupic, Matovic’s colleague, has already denied the information about four people from the „Ordinary People“ leaving the SaS faction. Sulik failed to contact Matovic by telephone to explain the situation. He also did not talk to the rest of people representing the Ordinary People. „I perceive them steadier and more mature,“ Sulik noted on behalf of deputies Erika Jurinova, Martin Fecko, and Jozef Viskupic.
Sulik wants to make the deputy fraction tidy and is „very sorry“ for what is happening right now. He thinks that he does not underestimate mutual communication with the representatives of Ordinary People and wants to communicate with them also in the future. „I think that the situation in recent weeks did not fail because of insufficient communication with Igor Matovic,“ Mr. Sulik said.
Igor Matovic and three other deputies were standing in the parliamentary elections as members of an independent civic movement, the Ordinary people, and were elected to parliament on the ballot of the SAS. They stood at the last four places of 150-member ballot of the SaS, and were eventually elected by preferential votes after the top three SaS candidates: Richard Sulik, Daniel Krajcer, and Jozef Mihal. Shortly after the election, the chairman of the party Richard Sulik said that the foursome will fully support the government program statement and will oversee its compliance.
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