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Devinsky, Prokopovic and Pataky Don't Feature on SDKU Election Slate
Tuesday 16 February 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, February 16 (TASR) - Current SDKU-DS MPs Ferdinand Devinsky, Jan Pataky and Pavol Prokopovic do not feature on the party slate for the parliamentary elections set for June 12, TASR learnt on Tuesday.
Conversely, some new faces appear on the list, such as former director of the INEKO economic institute Eugen Jurzyca, sociologist Miroslav Beblavy from the Slovak Governance Institute and director of SDKU's Central Office Kamil Homola. Meanwhile, former labour minister Ludovit Kanik was nominated by SDKU's regional structures in Banska Bystrica.
SDKU chairman Mikulas Dzurinda, who won't run in the elections in the wake of a scandal involving party funding, declined to comment on former transport minister Prokopovic's absence on the slate. Devinsky, for his part, has had his co-operation with the Communist secret service prior 1989 revealed last year.
Party renegades Lubos Michel (former famous international referee who has missed a great portion of parliamentary sessions in this legislature), former defence minister Juraj Liska (left the party in a huff about Dzurinda's management style) and MP Martin Kuruc (kicked out of the party after lobbying for Dzurinda's downfall as party leader) won't defend their seats in Parliament under the SDKU-DS banner either.
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