NITRA, November 12, (WEBNOVINY)- The new political party Nation and Justice (NaS) of ex-SNS senior official Anna Belousovova will organize a petition for announcing a referendum on Slovakia’s further participation in the European bailout fund. Anna Belousovova who was elected the chairwoman of the party at its founding congress in Nitra on Saturday told journalists that the petition is to be kicked off already next week. “We think that the time is ripe to ask Slovaks whether they agree that their money is still used for enhancing the European bailout fund,“ she stated.
About 200 congress delegates have elected Rudof Pucik, Oto Flimel and Robert Herceg deputy chairmen of the new party. The NaS does not define itself as a leftist or a rightist party. “We are simply normal people who are patriots first of all and honor the principles of democracy,” stated Belousovova.
The chairwoman does not want to specify the parties they would like to cooperate with. She unambiguously refused only cooperation with MOST-HID while she doubts that they would be able to find joint points with the SaS. She however was silent about possible cooperation with SNS. She believes however that her party will overstep the five-percent threshold for getting into parliament. In the event they remain outside parliament the party will not react with personnel purges, stated Belousovova.
The congress paid attention to minority issues. Belousovova said that Slovakia does not have any problems with minorities as they enjoy above-standard rights. She thinks that regarding the Hungarian minority politicians stir a feeling in them that they are endangered and then rush to rescue them. As far as the Roma community is concerned Belousovova says that she refuses to accept criminality, dirt, and sponging on the social system of the state as a display of this ethnic group’s culture. She underscored that her party will perceive everybody as a citizen wit equal rights and duties.
SNS leader Jan Slota has already said that there is no chance for pre-election cooperation of the SNS and Belousovova’s NaS. Slota expelled Belousovova from the party after she criticized the SNS outcome in 2010 elections when it just narrowly made it to parliament. The SNS leadership said she had to go as she was unable to come to terms with the situation after her power ambitions in the party could not be fulfilled. In the fall of 2010, Belousovova ran for the post of SNS leader at the party congress but she failed to defeat party boss Slota. She remained in the parliament and continues leading the Parliamentary Committee for Human Rights.
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