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Meciar: Gov't Is Successful Because Our Programme Was Carried Out

Bratislava, March 8 (TASR) - The current Government is a good one because it has carried out the programme drawn up by LS-HZDS, said HZDS chairman Vladimir Meciar on Sunday at a national assembly of the Democratic Youth Forum (DFM), a political organisation affiliated with HZDS.

"The actual situation before the Government was formed was that (Slovak National Party/SNS chairman Jan) Slota brought two articles written by professors from the University of Economics and all the work that needed to be done were done by us. Our programme is being carried out, and that is why the Government is good," said Meciar.

According to Meciar, Smer-SD and SNS believe that national issues could be a key topic in the election fight, and even the most crucial for SNS. "The (SNS) party is now trying to give its programme some deeper sense, but I expect that all its statements will only be in an anti-Hungarian spirit and they'll try to give it a national context as defending Slovakia's state interests. But there's a need at this point to define what Slovakia's state interests are - and they really aren't these things," said Meciar.

The HZDS chairman also highlighted Smer's marketing policy. "Smer's access to the media helps the party and it is very well managed, including via private businessmen, against whom it appears to be fighting," said Meciar.

"We won't react to self-praise, which stinks," SNS caucus leader Rafael Rafaj told TASR in reaction to Meciar's statements.

Smer-SD MP Miroslav Ciz refused to comment on Meciar's remarks.

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