BRATISLAVA, December 3, (WEBNOVINY)- The non-parliamentary SMK representing ethnic Hungarians in Slovakia decided to attract voters in the March 10 early elections with new faces. Only eight spots among the first twenty candidates belong to nominees who have already been MPs. “This slate mirrors expectations towards SMK after the lost elections a year ago,” said SMK Chairman Jozsef Berenyi after a meeting of the party’s national board that approved the slate for next year’s elections.
The leading trio on the slate features Berenyi, the head of the SMK National Board Gyula Bardos and SMK Deputy Chairman Ivan Farkas.
“We are trying to return to parliament and any result of over five percent is a great success for us,” Berenyi commented the party’s election ambitions. The party wants to focus on economy, regional development, social affairs and health care. Farkas says that the party will focus on southern Slovakia that the government has neglected. According to him twenty years ago, after the Velvet Revolution the region of southern Slovakia was one of the most influential and developed ones. But 22 years were enough and the situation is completely different – the south and the east of Slovakia are most neglected, he said. The party also wants to devote attention to the Roam issue in the south of Slovakia.
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