BRATISLAVA, January 5, (WEBNOVINY) — SDKU-DS, KDH and MOST-HID must realize that entering a coalition with SMER-SD would kill that party, MOST-HID leader Bela Bugar has warned. „That’s why I am constantly striving that we send out signals showing that our three parties want to cooperate and that we will not let this trio be razed. For the time being there are merely hints but I cannot say that we have agreed upon this,” he said in an exclusive interview with SITA news agency.
Bugar would like to see the three parties sending a message about their common course before and after the elections. The party leader thinks that the situation after the March race will be non-standard, not only regarding the Slovak political landscape but in the whole of Europe. The party leader could imagine signing of a common commitment by the three center-right parties. “I can imagine this, the question is whether the other parties can do so, too,” he noted. Bugar admitted some hesitation among Christian Democrats, while SDKU-DS showed a positive reaction to this scenario.
In reaction to his words KDH leader Jan Figel countered that it was rather the other way around and emphasized that an autonomous attitude did not mean isolation. Figel does not write the center-right coalition off. Even if Christian Democrats acted based on their own conviction, they strove for a center-right alternative. Figel maintains that the upcoming election will be about Slovakia and that what is good for Slovakia is good for KDH.
SMER-SD leader Robert Fico slammed Bugar’s words as buck-passing. He sees no reason to form such a coalition as suggested by Bugar. The former prime minister believes that a stable political party with firm tenets can form a government even with a stronger partner. It would not be good if the new government formed after the elections in March would have a constitutional majority. “First and foremost, constitutional majority is very dangerous. Constitutional majority is very dangerous because if you agree within the ruling coalition, you snub the rest of the political spectrum,” he remarked.
SITA