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SMK Rejects Dzurinda's Coalition With Extra-parliamentary Parties
Sunday 20 December 2009 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, December 20 (TASR) - The ethnic-Hungarian SMK party is surprised that SDKU-DS leader Mikulas Dzurinda is sending it messages on how it should pursue its politics through the media, said SMK spokesperson Eva Dunajska in response to Dzurinda's statements about SMK on public-service Slovak Television's (STV) politics show 'O Pat Minut Dvanast' (5 Minutes to 12) on Sunday.
Dzurinda said that the opposition SMK party is the only political party that Smer-SD won't be able to form a coalition with after the 2010 parliamentary elections, adding that SMK is naive for courting Smer or the current governing Coalition (Smer, LS-HZDS and the Slovak National Party/SNS).
"Dzurinda changes his opinions without thinking and quite often. SMK doesn't deem it necessary to sign any kind of document with anybody before the elections, it is the electorate who will decide on possible constellations after the elections," said Dunajska.
Even if SMK views Dzurinda's initiative to form a coalition with extra-parliamentary parties as a useful arrangement, it doesn't intend to take part in the project. The party respects SDKU's right to form a three-party grouping with extra-parliamentary parties Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) and Most-Hid, however.
Dunajska further stated that the party is prepared to co-operate with SDKU and the Christian Democratic Movement (KDH) and called for a meeting of these three parties.
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