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Dzurinda: Leaders of Six Opposition Parties to Meet on Tuesday
Saturday 12 December 2009 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, December 12 (TASR) - The leaders of six opposition parties are to meet in the SDKU-DS headquarters on Tuesday to discuss their experience from the co-operation in the recent regional elections and perspectives for the future, SDKU-DS chair Mikulas Dzurinda said at a press confererence following a session of SDKU-DS Central Council on Saturday.
"I'll offer an open platform ... I've enough experience to know that dictate will never function," said Dzurinda concerning the scheduled meeting of SDKU-DS, KDH (Christian Democrats), SMK (ethnic Hungarians), Most-Hid (oriented mainly on ethnic Hungarians), OKS (Civic Conservative Party) and SaS (Freedom and Solidarity).
The topic of Saturday's SDKU-DS Central Council session was evaluation of the year 2009 and the Higher Territorial Unit (VUCs) elections which took place last month. Dzurinda also presented his vision of the "reneval of Slovakia" following the possible replacement of the current governing Coalition by a centre-right bloc after the parliamentary elections next year.
"Slovakia has a government that doesn't have decent and honest people in mind, but it thinks only on itself and its sponsors," said Dzurinda referring to several scandals of the current Coalition, such as the sale of carbon-dioxide emission quotas and shady transfers of land estates via the Slovak Land Fund. Dzurinda also pointed to the increasing unemployment, which is allegedly to be ascribed rather to Government policies than to the global economic crisis.
The former premier also lambasted what he called "a brutal pressure against all private, independent and the media" by the Government. This pressure has also become evident in the Parliament, said Dzurinda. "I haven't seen such a reduced scope for political debate in the Parliament since 1991," he concluded.
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