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Eighteen Parties Submit Their Election Slates to UVK
Monday 15 March 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, March 15 (TASR) - A total of 18 political parties have submitted their slates for the June parliamentary elections, Central Election Committee (UVK) records clerk Livia Skultetyova told TASR on Monday.
According to Skultetyova, the parties will be registered only after UVK checks whether all the requirements have been met.
Candidate lists were submitted by the Alliance for the Europe of Nations (AZEN), the European Democratic Party (EDS), the Slovak Communist Party (KSS), the Christian Democratic Movement (KDH), LS-HZDS, People's Party-Our Slovakia, Most-Hid, New Democracy, Paliho Kapurkova, Freedom and Solidarity (SaS), SDKU-DS, the Slovak National Party (SNS), Smer-SD, the Party of the Democratic Left (SDL), the ethnic-Hungarian SMK, the Party of the Roma Coalition (SRK), Union-Party for Slovakia, and the Slovak Workers' Association (ZRS).
A total of 21 parties ran in the last parliamentary elections four years ago.
According to Skultetyova, apart from four exceptions, all the slates have 150 candidates listed, which is the maximum amount. The smallest number of candidates - only one - was submitted by Paliho Kapurkova - a light-hearted political party [founded by Pali Vass, a train driver from Humenne (Presov region), who claims that he didn't take part in elections for 20 years as there was nobody to vote for, so founded his own party instead. - ed. note].
The total number of candidates is 2,401. "The slates are better prepared and elaborated than in past years," stated Skultetyova. "UVK still has to be created, and as soon as it holds a session I will submit all the slates for UVK to check. The final number of parties could be known by the end of March," she said.
One of the conditions for parties to register themselves was a deposit of €16,596. This will be returned to parties that gain at least 2 percent of all votes cast within 30 days of the announcement of the official election results. The non-returned deposits will be added to the state budget.
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