Most-Hid and OKS Due to Run in General Election Together

Bratislava, February 9 (TASR) - Non-parliamentary parties Most-Hid and the Civic Conservative Party (OKS) agreed on Tuesday that they will run for the general election in June 2010 on the same ticket, representatives of both parties said at a press conference on the same day.

"We've agreed with OKS that their candidates will be on our slate and we'll also lead the campaign together," said Most-Hid chairman Bela Bugar.

According to Bugar, there will be one OKS nominee for every ten candidates on the slate, apart from the first ten candidates, who will all be Most-Hid members. "That was our condition," said Bugar, adding that his party won't interfere in the selection of OKS nominees.

"A joint slate with Most-Hid is important for us," said OKS chairman Peter Zajac.

Bugar said that discussions also took place on forming a large pre-election coalition consisting of more opposition parties, so that no vote is "wasted". "Nothing has happened so far, however," he said.

Bugar said that he wouldn't kick against the idea of a large pre-election coalition and would prefer a version with four parties joined together (SDKU-DS, Most-Hid, the non-parliamentary Freedom and Solidarity/SaS and OKS) as has been vaunted by SDKU chairman Mikulas Dzurinda.

The general election has been announced for June 12. Parties have to register slates with up to 150 nominees by March 14 along with a deposit of €16,596.

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