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SDL Demands Ban on Smer's Billboards Promising Cheaper Medicine
Tuesday 11 May 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, May 11 (TASR) - The Party of the Democratic Left (SDL) has filed a complaint to the Central Election Committee (UVK), demanding the removal of Smer-SD's election billboards with the slogan: 'Cheaper medicine', describing it as misleading advertising, said SDL chairman Marek Blaha on Tuesday.
"The Smer-SD party promotes cheaper drugs on them (the billboards), even though the situation has been completely the opposite during its four-year term of office. In 2006, when the current Government of Robert Fico took power, patients were paying around €132 million (in additional payments) on medicine. Last year it was €155 million," said Blaha.
According to Blaha, "the financial contribution of patients has been growing in silence, and the situation is unbearable for patients, especially seniors at the moment". SDL is convinced, therefore, that Smer is lying on its billboards and that UVK shouldn't accept lies in the election campaign.
UVK chair Tatiana Janeckova told TASR on the same day that the Committee hasn't received SDL's official complaint yet. "When I receive it, I will proceed as I did in the case of the Slovak National Party (SNS)," she added. [When SNS's controversial campaign was described by many as racist, UVK held an extraordinary session. In the end it was decided that UVK didn't have the power to deal with the complaint, however. - ed. note].
Blaha demands that if a session took place in the case of SNS, one should also be summoned in response to Smer's billboards.
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