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SaS Congress Rejects Entering Government with Smer-SD
Saturday 13 March 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Kosice, March 13 (TASR) - The extra-parliamentary Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) party will under no circumstances enter into a coalition with the main governing party Smer-SD after the parliamentary elections on June 12, the delegates at the 1st SaS congress decided in Kosice on Saturday.
"We view Smer-SD as a party that is responsible for an unheard-of economic and moral decline of Slovakia, and we won't co-operate with such a party," said SaS chairman Richard Sulik.
SaS's goal in the elections is to get into Parliament, which means to gain more than five percent. The party has cast aside €300,000 for the pre-election campaign, which will include billboards and meetings, said Sulik.
For the time being, SaS has ruled out only co-operation with Smer-SD. "It's too early to speak about possible coalition partners. We'll wait for the election results, and then we'll see the possible constellations," stressed the SaS chairman.
Sulik noted that the election manifesto of his party consist of 120 ideas, with individual's freedom and the related responsibility as its leitmotif. Touching on the party's idea to decriminalise marijuana, he said that the society shouldn't make criminals of young people that have been caught with one or two joints.
SaS has currently 216 members, of which 95 reside in Bratislava region. Sulik said that the low number of members is due to the tough criteria for joining the party, such as the ban on entry for people with a Communist past.
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