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Slota: Smer Would Go Along Even with Lucifer to Be in Power
Sunday 02 May 2010 Zoom in | Print page
(STV, May 2, O pat minut dvanast)
If the co-ruling Slovak National Party (SNS) isn't part of the government after the general election on June 12, it will be the death of Slovak sovereignty, SNS chief Jan Slota said on STV political chat show 'O pat minut dvanast' (5 Minutes to Twelve) on Sunday.
Slota said he will do everything possible to avoid his party being replaced in Government by ethnic Hungarians. "If a Hungarian should be here in place of me, it might as well be Lucifer," he said, adding that the ethnic-Hungarian parties SMK and Most-Hid are striving for autonomy in southern Slovakia in the first place.
"Most-Hid may claim that it's building bridges, but it's doing so only to make way for (Hungarian) tanks (that would thus be able to cross the Danube River and Ipel River on the Slovak-Hungarian border - ed. note)," said Slota.
He further levelled his verbal guns at the main governing party Smer-SD. "It will go along even with Lucifer, only to be at the trough," he said. However, he conceded that he would be ready to continue in one coalition with Smer even after the election, even though Premier Robert Fico's party has behaved like a thief who is shouting 'Catch that thief'. Slota was alluding to several sackings of SNS ministers for suspicions of corruption by Fico, who, however, didn't touch his own party's ministers.
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