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Slota: Losing Korba Is No Big Deal for SNS
Tuesday 16 February 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, February 16 (TASR) - Slovak National Party (SNS) chairman Jan Slota said on Tuesday that the departure of MP Anton Korba from the SNS parliamentary caucus is "no big loss" for the party.
Slota doesn't believe that Korba walked out of SNS as claimed in protest at problems regarding the accreditation of St. Elizabeth's University for Healthcare and Social Work in Bratislava. "The truth is completely different. I fully trust my Education Minister Jan Mikolaj. The real reason behind Korba's actions are a certain someone's business interests," he said.
Slota added that SNS won't demand that Korba return his MP's mandate. "It would be pointless, as he wouldn't give it back anyway. I'm a pragmatist. I always say that I'm not much of a politician, because a politician is first and foremost a good liar, but I can't lie," he claimed.
Korba is also chairman of the parliamentary committee for supervising the activities of the National Security Office (NBU). This post belongs to SNS, but it's still unclear whether Korba will lose his chairmanship as there isn't much time left until the parliamentary elections in June.
TASR tried to get hold of Korba as well, but a female voice answering his phone said that the MP is ill and in bed.
Slota confirmed on January 25 that Korba had left SNS but at that time remained a member of the SNS parliamentary caucus. According to Plus Jeden Den daily (Plus One Day), Korba left the party for personal reasons, which may have had something to do with the unfulfilled business ambitions of his family.
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