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Analyst: 2010 Saw Shift From Leftist to Rightist Patchwork
Tuesday 28 December 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, December 28 (TASR) - The parliamentary elections in June and the changeover from a "leftist patchwork of Jan Slota (Slovak National Party/SNS), Vladimir Meciar (LS-HZDS) and Robert Fico (Smer-SD) to a rightist patchwork was the key event in the year about to end, political analyst Michal Horsky told TASR on Tuesday.
At the same time, Horsky admitted that what he called the "wearing out" of the current governing Coalition has taken him by surprise.
Sociologist Martin Slosiarik included the recent murder of high-profile lawyer Ernest Valko on his list of the main political events of 2010, as the crime equates to an assault on the fundamental principles of liberal democracy. "In a country where a legal system ought to work, a country where we're saying that we've progressed in building democracy, things simply can't be resolved this way," said Slosiarik.
Meanwhile, day-to-day political scandals such as the shady funding of political parties are no longer capable of exerting a major impact on public opinion, he noted.
According to political analyst Juraj Marusiak of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV), the election of independent candidate Milan Ftacnik as mayor of Bratislava, albeit with Smer-SD's backing, can also be ranked among the main political events of 2010. In his mayoral bid, Ftacnik defeated the current Coalition's candidate Magda Vasaryova even though coalition candidates won two-thirds of the seats in Bratislava city council.
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