BRATISLAVA, February 2, (WEBNOVINY) — The leadership of the opposition parliamentary party SNS unanimously decided to expel former deputy chairperson Anna Belousovova from the party on Wednesday. They explained the decision saying that she was unable to cope with the situation when her power ambitions in the party could not be fulfilled. “Her lust for power and unfulfilled expectations made of her a symbol of quarrelsomeness and hidden aggression on the Slovak political scene. She confirmed arrogance by her conduct when she neither attended in the meeting of the deputy club nor at the session of party leadership where she could have defended herself,“ the SNS explained the expulsion. They suggest in their stance further that Belousovova has become a “democrat” and “critic” only after she again gained a stable deputy mandate. The SNS leadership urges the former party senior official to leave parliament and return her deputy mandate to the party.
The SNS leadership argued that Belousovova damaged the party with her media appearances and attacks on the SNS over the last six months more than all media together. She criticized the party without having attempted to first solve the issues about which she was critical inside the party and fix them, though being a member of the leadership for a long time. “It is noteworthy that Belousovova’s rhetoric is identical with her communication when she was breaking up the SNS ten years ago. “This only proves that under her disguise of a decent woman is a person is hiding lust for personal power and a post and who is willing to destroy even her own party to get it.
Belousovova does not want to comment on the decision yet. „I will definitively call a news conference by Friday where I will take stance. We will meet, chat, it will be interesting,“ she announced. However she reiterated that the expulsion from the party was not any surprise to her.
Before the sitting of the leadership SNS boss Jan Slota said on Tuesday that expelling Anna Belousovova from the party would not be a right move. “I am not determined to do anything at all. I do not know where the media got it from that the SNS wants to expel someone. Maybe Ms Belousovova feels she should be expelled; I do not know where she got it from. There are many possibilities, but there is the party leadership for it, and leadership is not Jan Slota.” Slota announced in early January that the leadership would deal with the conduct of Belousovova. He said that she had several disgusting performances irreconcilable with being an SNS member.
Slota and the former deputy chairwoman, Anna Belousovova, got into a conflict before the SNS congress in September, which was to pick a new chairperson for the party. Belousovova criticized her party boss for scandals linked with the party during the past four years when the SNS was a member of the ruling coalition. She made Slota responsible for them. The sharp exchange of opinions continued also before the municipal elections when Belousovova supported a non-member for the mayoral post in her home town of Cadca. Slota alleged that Belousovova plans to establish a new party after she loses the party leadership race in direct confrontation with him. She however denied she had such intentions.
In 2001, Slota established a new party as the result of his open rift with Belousovova. The rumpus led up to both parties failing to get into parliament in elections in 2002 because the vote was split. The parties then reunited and Belousovova become the first SNS chairwoman.
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