BRATISLAVA, February 12, (WEBNOVINY) – Parliamentary deputy Igor Matovic is getting closer to establishing his own political party. “If coalition parties valued freedom and the Constitution, they would have to condemn expulsion of a deputy from party caucus for voting. It is shameful when Slota, or Fico, those, who as standard tread democracy under foot, have to condemn the step. Those who pretend to be democrats have not condemned it. Therefore I do not expect them to change the laws so that independent candidates can run in parliamentary elections. They have thus dramatically pushed me toward establishing a party for the independent,” Matovic told SITA news agency. By establishing the party, he wants to create space for independent candidates to get to Parliament without being subject to partisan discipline.
Matovic did not want to specify when he would establish the party. He believes that when people get freedom, laws will be better. “What is it about now? Laws of the previous government will be redone for three years. That is politicking. A year before the elections, a campaign will be hastily carried out to attract voters,” he said. Matovic believes that if deputies are independent persons who do not engage in politicking, they will watch what is right and what is wrong and create good, stable laws. “Only then will politics serve what they were elected for”, he emphasized.
On Thursday, the ruling coalition member SaS expelled Igor Matovic from its caucus for voting with the opposition SMER-SD party. He thus became the third independent deputy in the parliament, after Andrej Durkovsky who left the KDH party and Anna Belousovova, who was expelled from the opposition SNS party.
On Friday evening, Prime Minister Iveta Radicova met with Igor Matovic and two deputies within his platform Ordinary Members, who remain members of the SaS platform. “We talked with Mrs. prime minister, exchanged opinions on the current situation and agreed that no government crisis exists,” Matovic said after the one-hour meeting with the prime minister. He further said that he assured the prime minister that the government has full support of Ordinary People.
SITA