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Meciar: Campaign Is Calm, Parties Are Wary in Quest for Power
Friday 14 May 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Zvolen, May 14 (TASR) - The election campaign in Slovakia hasn't been as rough as that in the Czech Republic, for example, as the parties don't know how the future governing coalition will look, and so are wary in their quest for power, LS-HZDS chair Vladimir Meciar said at a press conference in Zvolen (Banska Bystrica region) on Friday.
"The parties don't want to get into an open dispute, so in Slovakia we don't have pronounced stances or topics at the moment," said Meciar.
The HZDS chairman assumes that the future composition of the legislature will be the same as today's, with small parties having little chance of getting into Parliament after the election on June 12. He doesn't like the fact that the only small party that is reaching the 5-percent threshold in the polls quite safely - Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) - wants to decriminalise soft drugs. Anyway, the party's support seems exaggerated, he claimed.
Meciar described his own party's campaign as non-confrontational. "We aren't promising people big things, as we know that they can't be fulfilled," said Meciar, adding that the issues for HZDS are human goodness, trust, the search for solutions, and doing away with poverty and unemployment.
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