BRATISLAVA, February 27, (WEBNOVINY) — SaS leader Richard Sulik said on Monday that if he does not win the most preference votes among SaS candidates in the upcoming early elections, he will give up his seat in parliament. He has thus offered voters of the neo-liberal SaS party the option to decide whether he enjoys enough trust to represent them in parliament. “I have decided to offer a public pledge that in case I will not receive the most preferential votes in March elections, I will give up my mandate. I have let voters decide whether I should represent them in parliament despite my meetings with businessman Marian Kocner,“ stated Sulik.
In connection with the Sasanka case, Sulik offered his resignation from the election leader post to the SaS National Council over the weekend. “Richard Sulik as the election leader has full support of SaS National Council,” reads the council’s decision supported by all council members but Sulik who abstained from voting.
Sulik called his meetings with Kocner a mistake again and repeated that his motivation was the effort to find out who were the “traitors” in the coalition who gave their votes to Dobroslav Trnka in the prosecutor general election. “It is not my fault that Mr. Kocner is one of the best informed men in politics,” said Sulik and underscored that the Sasanka case is a dirty campaign. “After all, even the worst dogs in the manger said that no illegal act was done,” he added.
Sasanka case erupted in January after someone placed transcriptions of a SMS conversation between Sulik and Kocner on the Internet. Later on, video recordings where Sulik discusses the election of the prosecutor general and backstage of the Slovak politics in businessman’s house also appeared on the same website. The recordings indicate that SaS was ready to back removal of Iveta Radicova from the post of prime minister and appointment of Ivan Miklos in the post in 2010. Sulik also complains to Kocner about difficult cooperation with Radicova because of her volatile decision-making. Sulik also informed the businessman who features on the so-called mafia lists that someone had offered SaS MPs EUR 300,000 for supporting Dobroslav Trnka in the election of the prosecutor general. Radicova says that such meetings disqualify politicians.
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