BRATISLAVA, July 13, (WEBNOVINY) — The ruling coalition party MOST-HID has lodged a criminal charges against the opposition SNS party over its incitement to national intolerance. “Anti-Hungarian billboards that the SNS has placed across the country as well as offensive and slanderous statements of SNS MPs in the media and parliament were the reason for pressing the charges against the party,” said MOST-HID press secretary Nora Czuczorova at a press conference.
“We have taken action so late because have been waiting for somebody — the non-governmental sector, law enforcement bodies — to notice, realize, and draw attention to societal danger of such invectives. Nothing like that has happened and we are convinced that such expressions are dangerous and have no place in the 21st century,” said MOST-HID chairman Bela Bugar, adding that the billboards and statements of SNS MPs are convincing Slovak citizens that being a patriot means hating another nation. Bugar opines that such displays of national intolerance are even more dangerous coming from members of the political elite that many people perceive as their example.
Bugar also indicated that he would address all mayors and heads of towns and villages to take advantage of possibilities that the revised bill governing the use of minority languages provides.
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