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Former Ministry State Secretary Beblavy Joins SDKU's Election Slate
Friday 12 February 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, February 12 (TASR) - The main opposition SDKU-DS party on Friday presented a new name on its slate for the upcoming general election, with former state secretary of the Labour, Social Affairs and the Family Ministry Miroslav Beblavy joining the party's list of figures hoping to secure a parliamentary seat in June, TASR learnt on the same day.
"He's a member of our political party, but he's not in our top political structures," said party chairman Mikulas Dzurinda, adding that he'll propose Beblavy's candidacy for the election on Monday.
"I may be good-looking, but first and foremost I want to bring new ideas. There are three topics that I'm interested in. They're employment, education and the modernisation of Slovakia," said Beblavy, adding that Slovakia isn't in a good condition and changes are needed.
"The only way to secure change is to set up a government without the Smer-SD party, because any government with Smer will be the same as today, with just minor cosmetic adjustments to the left or right," said Beblavy.
Beblavy added that he's retiring from the post of chairman of the managing board of the Slovak Governance Institute (SGI) as of Friday. "I agreed on this with fellow members of SGI earlier this week. I'm going for the same move as when I was at the Labour Ministry, that is, I'll remain an SGI member," said Beblavy.
According to Dzurinda, no more new candidates on SDKU's slate will be presented following announcements concerning economist Eugen Jurzyca, judge Jana Dubovcova and Beblavy.
Former two-time premier Dzurinda wouldn't comment on whether he would prefer to see party vice-chairs Ivan Miklos or Iveta Radicova replace him at the top of the party slate. "What matters is that we have two good candidates. Party members will make the decision on February 27," he said.
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