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Analysts: Fico Justifiably Afraid of Leading Smer-SD Into Isolation
Tuesday 20 April 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, April 20 (TASR) - According to political analysts Michal Horsky and Grigorij Meseznikov, Prime Minister and leader of the strongest political party Smer-SD Robert Fico is justifiably worried that he may be leading his party into political isolation (and may not find coalition partners following the June 12 vote), TASR has learned on Tuesday.
Horsky said that the current chief of the Government treats the opposition parties as enemies and refuses any potential co-operation with any of them, rather than approaching them as his potential governing allies. "Everything about his party's behaviour in recent months indicates the fear that Smer-SD might not be the one to form the next government," said the analyst. Among the mistakes made by Smer-SD, Horsky also listed "sucking the voting potential" away from Smer's coalition partners SNS and LS-HZDS, saying that Fico's party is doing this "in an unbridled way".
Meseznikov said that there have been several polls published where centre-right parties (now in Opposition) won more votes than those in Coalition. "That's why such an assumption (that Fico might be working with - ed. note) is not built upon a sheer speculation," he said.
Both analysts were asked by TASR to comment on Fico's statements made at a news conference on Tuesday, where he said that his party wants to keep in line with the practice established after the 2006 general election - that should it be the winner of the June 12 general election it will form the Government and decide on who will be its coalition partner (if they need one). At the same time, he called the attempts of the opposition (rightist) parties to create a five-party governing bloc to be legitimate, but that such a coalition would bring "remarkable political instability".
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