BRATISLAVA, January 13, (WEBNOVINY) — The opposition SMER-SD party of Robert Fico that has been Slovakia’s strongest political party for years is launching its campaign before March 10 early parliamentary elections on Monday, January 16. The head of the party’s election team and its deputy chairman Marek Madaric told SITA news agency that the first meeting with citizens will be in Topolcany this Monday and the last rally is scheduled for March 8 in the National Tennis Center in Bratislava. The party plans 24 big rallies and hundreds of smaller meetings with citizens as each party leader has his/her own program, Madaric specified.
SMER-SD rallies will be held in halls being divided into a political part featuring the party chairman and deputy chairpersons and a cultural program part of which always will be a local artistic ensemble. At each meeting the Social-Democrats plan to introduce people who helped somebody as in the current hard times they want to honor the principle of human solidarity and mutual assistance in this way.
Speaking about his party’s election campaign last Friday, Robert Fico said that SMER-SD is an established brand. “We do not need to spend hundreds of millions of crowns or tens of millions of euros to present ourselves, which is how other political parties do it, mainly those brand-new ones,” he said. Fico believes that people currently need elementary certainties. “A man has to feel that the state will step in. It is such a good feeling. The government will do something. The government will struggle. Also people have to make a great effort. People as if lost this feeling of certainty over the past period. And it is quite justified as to end up on the top of the price hike chart is not a very good mark for the outgoing government,” stated Fico. According to him, his party gave certainties to people and is prepared to provide them also in the upcoming period.
SITA