BRATISLAVA, January 25, (WEBNOVINY) — Candidates of the new political movement Ordinary People and Independent Personalities have agreed upon its election program, but they did not disclose much about its contents to journalists in front of the Slovak Parliament building on Wednesday. Movement’s leader Igor Matovic told them to refer to their website and highlighted that in spite of a lack of trust from the outside, one hundred and fifty candidates managed to approve a program which they all agree upon. Matovic considers the main point on the agenda the one that does not feature there – lives of those who do not run for the movement in the parliamentary elections. “Best words are deeds,” he noted, adding that the program’s main motto is an effort to stop siphoning off Slovakia.
Chairman of the Civic Conservative Party (OKS) Peter Zajac, whose candidates run on the movement’s candidate list too, described the document as “program of common sense”. According to the leader of Conservative Democrats of Slovakia (KDS) party Vladimir Palko, the program has the potential to lead Slovakia out of economic and moral crisis. Former journalist Eugen Korda stressed that though all political parties promise to fight corruption, only Ordinary People can be trusted to really mean it. “Fates and life stories of candidates confirm that corruption and cronyism is cancer for them, which eats away the country, and they want to heal this country,” he said.
Matovic opines that the movement’s priorities harmonize with priorities of center-right parties, which allows formation of a center-right coalition. Matovic wants to inform about the program only later.
The program document reads that the main objective of the movement is introduce „new blood“ in Slovak politics. The candidates want to continue in consolidation of public funds with the aim to achieve a balanced budget, improve transparency of the state’s economic performance and lift deputy’s immunities from prosecution, among other goals.
Matovic established the movement Ordinary People and Independent Personalities in November after parliament refused to chance electoral laws to enable independent personalities to run for parliament. He said then that the party’s founding congress would be purely formal, just to fulfill the minimal legal requirements for registration. Merely a quartet its current members of parliament, Igor Matovic, Martin Fecko, Erika Jurinova and Jozef Viskupic were present. Matovic does not want the party to form regional organizations or seek more members. “We have not established the movement to have it but to be able to run in the parliamentary elections. We do not want to imitate political parties, we want to mock them,” he elaborated. The movement will not have any more members, just sympathizers, he explained.
SITA