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Janis: Fico Will Probably Attack SDKU Below Belt in Election Campaign
Tuesday 30 March 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, March 30 (TASR) - The opposition SDKU-DS party warned on Tuesday that it expects Prime Minister and Smer-SD leader Robert Fico to engage in dirty tactics against it in the run-up to the parliamentary elections on June 12.
The party stated that this was already the case earlier this year when SDKU was accused of money-laundering.
The party's whip Stanislav Janis suggested that Fico may well be tampering with secret-service intelligence in order to use it in the election battle.
"One cannot rule out that he could use some undercover information plucked out of thin air somewhere in a pub and use it in the election struggle," he said, noting that the premier is one of the top officials that the intelligence forces directly report to.
When Fico revisited a SDKU-related funding scandal with fresh claims that the strongest opposition party was laundering money and that its protagonists hold money in tax-free Swiss bank accounts, he even vowed to investigate the facts in Switzerland, noted Janis.
"You know Fico promised to travel to Switzerland, but he's failed to do so to date. He uses bombshells from the Slovak intelligence services and will try and use such below-the-belt attacks in the campaign. That can't be prevented," said Janis.
According to him, Fico will resort to all possible, unfair methods if public support goes down for him but increases for the rightist parties.
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