Neither the 'Modrí, Most-Hid', nor the Aliancia party or the grouping of parties around the Hungarian Forum plan to withdraw from the snap general election, even at the risk of wasted votes, their leaders said on RTVS's discussion programme 'Sobotne dialogy’. According to polls, these parties have not come close to the 5% threshold. According to most polls, these parties would earn 3% or less in the election. To reach the Parliament, a party has to earn at least 5% of all valid votes.
Aliancia chairman Krisztian Forro has called on the other two aforementioned parties to withdraw from the election. He believes that Aliancia will make it to parliament. "We are the voice of southern and eastern Slovakia, we won't withdraw from the fight," he said.
According to their leader Mikulas Dzurinda, Modrí, Most-Hid will run in the election on September 30. He said he wants to bring the European Union to Slovakia. "Today I feel that we only have European prices, but everything else is far from Europe," he said.
The leader of the grouping of parties around Hungarian Forum Zsolt Simon said that if they withdrew from the political fight, ethnic-Hungarian voters would have no other possibility, "but to vote for an alternative that might end up being Fico".
Source: TASR
