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Meciar: HZDS Offers New Programme, Paths and Hope to Overcome Crisis
Saturday 06 March 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Ruzomberok, March 6 (TASR) - Slovakia has fallen into a crisis after 20 years again and now it needs a new programme, new paths and new hope. All of this is being offered by LS-HZDS party, said HZDS chairman Vladimir Meciar during his speech at the party's nomination session in Ruzomberok (Zilina region) on Saturday.
"I'm glad to be the chairman of this party and to be able to help to start up this path. The success can belong to all of us together or to nobody. Mutuality, solidarity, support and unity are means by which we want to address people in the next three months and give them certainty in their lives," said Meciar.
"We're interested in maintaining the political stability in Slovakia. We're not interested in the Czech way of political instability and the Hungarian way of the rising nationalism and even some neo-fascist moves. This isn't Slovakia," he stressed.
Meciar noted in his speech that the regional policy has to become a bigger priority of the future government, and the inevitable industrial restructuring can't be done without the state support. Improving the quality of university education will require attention, too.
According to Meciar's estimates, there are about 20 percent of rightist and leftist voters in Slovakia and about 60 percent of people inclining to centralist ideas. "Centralist parties haven't been formed in the political development so far. The left and the right have been struggling for the centre. For the first time, there's an historical opportunity to form new parties in the centre, which will represent the most-numerous, most-educated and most-developed groups of people and will enable new re-forming - in terms of the political spectre as well as political philosophy and opinions," he said.
Meciar also pointed to the fast-approaching 20th anniversary of HZDS. "There will be a lot to be celebrated. This society still doesn't have anything better. We've paused, but never fell. It's time to start to believe in ourselves, don't let anybody degrade us, to be able to defend our work and history. It's time for searching new starting points of a new way for Slovakia for the next 20 years," he said at the end of his speech.
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