Slovak right-wing parties join forces in National Coalition

Following Saturday's protests in Bratislava against EU-sanctioned mandatory migrant quotas, a selection of active and defunct right-wing political parties and personalities have joined forces. Former representatives of the now defunct People's Party - Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (LS-HZDS) Milan Urbáni and Sergej Kozlík and former Slovak National Party (SNS) vice-chair Anna Belousovová have teamed up in a 'National Coalition', TASR learnt on Tuesday. The grouping, which was created from the parties that the three politicians set up after exiting the People's Party and the Slovak National Party, is designed to bring together parties with a national and Christian orientation. National Coalition will vie for seats in the general election in March 2016. Urbáni set up the Party of Modern Slovakia (SMS). Kozlík, who was deputy premier and finance minister in the 1990s, established the Party of Democratic Slovakia, while Belousovová founded Nation and Justice - Our Party. "National Coalition is gradually evolving into a political party with a view to running in the upcoming parliamentary election, while it will admit other political parties with a national and Christian orientation", reads the Coalition's statement. "Slovakia currently needs a true and determined national party that rejects extremism and the misuse of a national idea for scoring political points or for political business", the statement asserts. The Coalition is also in talks with 'New Democracy' founder and erstwhile LS-HZDS senior official Tibor Mikuš. It will also seek agreement with the Green Party.