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SDKU-DS Has Approved Its Election Programme
Saturday 27 March 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, March 27 (TASR) - The strongest opposition party SDKU-DS has "dispatched a train", hoping to persuade as many voters as possible to want to board it, according to the party's election leader Iveta Radicova, speaking to journalists on Saturday, following SDKU's central committee confirming the party's election programme.
Radicova said her party wants to make Slovakia "a better home" for its citizens, especially focusing on improvements towards the middle class. "SDKU has good intentions ... God, help us," she said in her speech, receiving standing ovations from the central committee members.
She added that SDKU may have in confrontational rhetorics, "banging fists on the table", but the party has chosen other way to go. In her opinion, Slovakia, just like any other EU country, is going to take a tough test in the months ahead. "We're looking for answers to the serious impacts of the economic crisis. Let's not pretend it's going to be easy," said Radicova who claims that SDKU has employed brand new programme and communications strategies. "Our programme reflects the fundamental problems that this country is going through," she explained.
SDKU's election programme contains 140 proposed solutions to various issues across all policy areas. These solutions are divided into two parts - one part includes those to be seeded over the first 100 days in power (i.e. urgent issues), while the other group of solutions is aimed at problems to be tackled throughout the whole term in office, it was reported.
Commenting on some opinions that SDKU has recently been presenting itself as more socially-oriented than it used to be in the past, Radicova noted that one of the most serious mistakes the party made when it was at power (1998-2006) was exactly "the unclear and indistinct way of communication with citizens". Now, around half of the party's programme is oriented towards issues related to unemployment, low salaries, badly-working family policies, and socially disadvantaged people, said Radicova.
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