BRATISLAVA, September 3, (WEBNOVINY) — Former Prime Minister Iveta Radicova will not run in presidential elections in 2014. “No, thanks for your trust, but really not. The experience I gained in politics is the kind of experience that left negative marks on me,” she told a political talk show program ‘Nazivo’ on Radio Expres.
Radicova says she perceives the Slovak political culture rather as a non-culture, featuring a lot of arrogance, hatred and aggressiveness. Now when several months passed since she left the political scene she realizes the high rate of non-freedom in politics because of various necessary compromises and also because of reactions to impulses that cannot be ranked among decent or cultural ones or ones that would be worth of mentioning but despite this they influence us and exist here, she stated.
In Slovak politics there is no situation that would not be influenced by party affiliation. “Conversely, we have democracy marked by partocracy, i.e., by rule of political parties and also the presidential post, in whatever way its competencies have been defined, is influenced by the [power] distribution among political parties,” thinks Radicova. She mentioned in this connection also the last presidential race in which the current head of state Ivan Gasparovic was publicly supported by the ruling SMER-SD. The ex-prime minister and one of the most popular politicians here added that she would perceive her return on the political scene as a sacrifice that she would bring only if there was elementary decency and respect for posts and positions in Slovakia. However she thinks that the public perceives politicians as goods towards whom anything is allowed.
SITA