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LS-HZDS Party Gremium To Decide On Urbani's Ousting on Saturday
Friday 04 December 2009 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, December 4 (TASR) - LS-HZDS party executive council is most likely to decide on ousting of its member Milan Urbani at council session on Saturday, council's chairman Marian Klenko told TASR on Friday.
Urbani was given a political ultimatum - leave the party voluntarily or the party's gremium will submit a proposal for his exclusion on December 5, said LS-HZDS chairman Vladimir Meciar at a press conference on November 20. Meciar is convinced that Urbani is sitting on two chairs when he is engaged in building up the structures of the European Democratic Party (EDS).
Urbani doesn't see any reason for playing along with party chairman Vladimir Meciar's ultimatum to leave the party voluntarily or get ousted, he told TASR in reaction to Meciar's statements. "If somebody is interested in not having me in the party, I say I won't give up. Let them kick me out," said Urbani. He refused to comment on the official reasons behind the ultimatum - that Urbani backs the European Democratic Party (EDS) and sits on two party-political chairs. "I've already told the gremium everything," said Urbani, who is convinced that he "has done a lot (for the party) and is still doing a lot".
According to Meciar, Urbani denies his membership in EDS, but "we (LS-HZDS) have proved to him, more or less, that he has participated in its preparation and in selecting the people for the party's slate of candidates for the November 14 to the Higher Territorial Unit (VUC) elections". Unfulfilled ambitions are cited by Meciar as the reason for Urbani's actions. "He wanted to be LS-HZDS vice-chairman, but he didn't succeed. He had an ambition to be an EU Commissioner and it didn't happen. He has reasons for being unsatisfied ... but I don't have a bad relationship with him as a person," said Meciar.
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