BRATISLAVA, October 20, (WEBNOVINY) – Prime Minister Iveta Radicova does not think that new political parties have brought good luck to the local political landscape. “It has always been a problem. I do not want to create problems,” she said to the question whether she could imagine herself in another party than SDKU-DS. “I have been replying to this question for six years. I have been answering in the same way for six years. One picks the party based on values and the program not because he/she is against something or someone,” she elaborated. In her opinion, fundamental values of SDKU-DS have not changed, whether the EU agenda or reforms.
“The political mistake” as SMER-SD Robert Fico called Radicova has offered something unconventional to the local political scene, the prime minister noted. “It is difficult to push it through. Fico has been provoking me to jump on his style for fifteen months. It has not been always easy for me to bite my tongue but I am convinced that politics should look differently and that we’ll live to see that values belong to politics and that citing sentences taken out of context is efficient, but with merely short-term effects. I can assure you that I will show Fico that his statement that he would never sit in the opposition and shout at the Cabinet, which he has never fulfilled, can be put into reality,” she pledged.
Radicova and SDKU-DS leader Mikulas Dzurinda will debate the party’s slate for the early elections in March in the coming days. Senior bodies of the party will convene afterwards. “I will inform my colleagues in SDKU-DS on my plans first,” she observed.
The prime minister expressed understanding for Fico’s need to question exclusively her person so that he keeps doors open for potential left-right coalitions. “I am a satisfying target. He does not hesitate to use all his means and tools. For me, communication with this gentleman is impossible,” she concluded.
SITA