BRATISLAVA, December 19, (WEBNOVINY) — KDH head and Transport Minister Jan Figel says that his party’s natural partners are SDKU-DS and MOST-HID. “Also at this moment, just as years ago, we are cooperating with parties led by my colleagues Mikulas Dzurinda and Bela Bugar, i. e., with SDKU-DS and MOST-HID because we come from the same environment, both politically and regarding our program. What’s more, with SDKU we are members of one European family, the European People’s Party,“ Figel told SITA news agency. He says that political affinity and responsibility have brought them together since the fall of the Communist regime and the end of the era of Meciarism. “Cooperation with them was for us, regardless of whether in the opposition or in government, a part of the offer, a part of solutions. It is up to each party how many mandates it will bring to the election table after March 10 [early parliamentary elections — SITA note] and I wish very much that we will do well together, elaborated Figel. According to him, the collapse of the government in October was a new experience with a clear message that the European agenda is no longer a foreign and remote topic but a an internal political one.
Figel says that the opposition SMER-SD understands that what it says is true: the European agenda cannot have two faces. “The Slovak attitude in Brussels and in Bratislava has to be legible, continual, and credible, as it has political and certainly also legal, economic and financial consequences,” said the KDH leader.
Figel admits that SMER-SD formed a stable coalition over the last four years but he argues that also the coalition of Vladimir Meciar, Jan Slota and Jan Luptak was similarly stable. “It is not only stability that Slovakia needs. It is not only certainties that were here in the previous regime. People need stability, certainty but mainly responsibility that maintains all these interests based on a free democratic society.
SITA