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Prochazka: If Radicova Resigns, Coalition Won't Survive as It Is

(Slovak Radio, December 4, 'Sobotne Dialogy')

It is naive to think that the current Coalition will continue to govern as it does now if Prime Minister Iveta Radicova keeps her word and steps down, said Parliamentary Constitutional Committee chairman Radoslav Prochazka (Christian Democrat/KDH) on the Slovak Radio's (SRo) politics discussion programme 'Sobotne Dialogy' (Saturday Dialogues) on Saturday.

Radicova has promised that she resigns if joint Coalition candidate for Prosecutor General Jozef Centes is defeated by Smer-SD's candidate and current Prosecutor General Dobroslav Trnka in the vote. There are speculations that Radicova's promise served as the reason for at least four Coalition MPs to vote for Trnka on Thursday.

"I don't know whether the hands of the four or five MPs weren't led by a naive conviction that they'll simply reach a replacement on the prime minister's post with the Coalition going on with a different composition," said Prochazka. He thinks that if Radicova, whose certain ethos holds the Coalition together, resigns, it won't be possible to maintain the four rightists parties together anymore.

Smer-SD chairman Robert Fico, who also discussed the issue on the show, doesn't think that it is Radicova's possible resignation that shuffled the cards. He claims there are other political motives. "This is an absolutely rational consequence of this patchwork (Coalition of four parties), because this is a government that has been from the very beginning adopting chaotic decisions that often go against people," stressed Fico. He views the problematic selection of the Prosecutor General as the forfeit for teaming up of so many different parties.

Despite all the problems that have been surrounding the vote, Prochazka expressed his belief that the four parties will accomplish the four-year electoral term without breaking-up the Coalition.

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