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Slota: Smer Playing Games with Coalition Partner over Symbols Act
Tuesday 27 April 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, April 27 (TASR) - The SNS nationalist party said on Tuesday it had chosen the lesser of two evils when voting to pass a bill tabled by its coalition partner Smer-SD in compensation for the SNS-sponsored that was rejected measure earlier in the day.
Commenting on SNS's Patriot's Act being voted down in parliament earlier on Tuesday, SNS chairman Jan Slota said that he thinks Smer-SD is playing games with its junior partner when it pushed through its own amendment to the law on state symbols drafted by Smer chief and Premier Robert Fico.
Slota stopped short of saying whether those political games have harmed his relations with Premier Fico or whether he would find the current premier a trustworthy coalition partner after the general election on June 12.
Nor did he divulge whether SNS voted in favour of the amendment of Smer-SD with a view toward a potential coalition with Fico's party.
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