BRATISLAVA, October 27, (WEBNOVINY) — Opposition SMER-SD leader Robert Fico stated on Thursday that SDKU chairman Mikulas Dzurinda rejects cooperation with them only because his party and the SaS are competing who is a bigger SMER-basher. „Nothing else is behind it. The rightist conglomerate is dead and Dzurinda cries: let’s live a new one with Dzurinda at its helm.” Fico stated at a news conference. He thinks that people will have to choose between what had been here for fifteen months under Dzurinda or a stable government that will guarantee protection for the people. “We offer a stable, strong, and protectionist government. I perceive Dzurinda’s words positively. It is a display of pettiness to rule out and to not rule out. Important is whether Slovakia will be able to cope with this troublesome period. Dzurinda made one of fatal political mistakes yesterday. It made the situation easier for us,” Fico stated.
SDKU leader Mikulas Dzurinda stated midweek that his party will not sit in one government with SMER-SD. He sees unbridgeable differences between the two parties while comparing them to fire and water. “We will not be in the same government,” he stated. The SaS and MOST-HID do not want to cooperate with SMER-SD either. The fourth members of the former ruling coalition, KDH is silent for now about whether to go with Fico or not.
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