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Christian Democrats (KDH) Opening Up to Protestants
Monday 30 November 2009 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, November 30 (TASR) - Opposition Christian Democrats (KDH) seek to reach as many Christian-minded people as possible and involve more Protestants in KDH policies, said the party's first chairman Jan Carnogursky in the wake of a conference Monday to mark the 20th anniversary of the first appeal to establish KDH clubs.
When the first Christian-Democratic clubs were emerging in November 1989 they included more Protestants, such as Miroslav Tahy, who would later represent KDH as an MP. "The number of Protestants operating as part of KDH has been falling year in, year out," said Carnogursky.
His successor Pavol Hrusovsky weighed in by saying that KDH has never been in a position to be a party acting exclusively for Roman Catholics.
Incumbent chairman Jan Figel wants the party to open up more to the general public, which is why he, along with his predecessors at the helm of the party, relaunched a new appeal to restore and establish new Christian Democratic clubs.
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