Communication between opposition parties is essential to building a good government after the 2020 elections, Freedom and Solidarity Party (SaS) leader Richard Sulík said after meeting with head of the "For the People" party Andrej Kiska on Monday. "It was a friendly meeting where we talked about cooperation. It's long been known that we are going into the elections independently, but communication between opposition parties is essential to building a good government for Slovakia," Sulík told TASR, adding that he has known Kiska for about 12 years. According to him, they met before his entry into politics and are long-time friends. Kiska, who launched his party in mid-June after leaving the Presidential palace, added on a social network that he wants to discuss informal co-operation with each democratic party. According to him, they've always been able to talk with Sulík. "We haven't always agreed on everything, but we have a common goal - to make Slovakia a better place to live," he said.
The Most-Hid party, a junior member of the governing coalition with declining voter preferences, is also on a talking tour these days. Its leaders held talks with Slovakia's Roma Initiative and the Hungarian ethnic party MKDA-MKDSZ on possible co-operation ahead of the general election slated for next year, Most-Hid leader Béla Bugár confirmed last Friday. Later this month he is expected to meet with representatives of the Hungarian Forum that was recently founded by Zsolt Simon, a former member of the Hungarian Community Party (SMK) and a Most-Hid co-founder.
And while already established parties talk about cooperation, voters are faced with an even wider offer. Former Health and Interior Minister Tomáš Drucker has launched a website and a video clip announcing he will travel through Slovakia in the summer to talk to ordinary people with the goal of launching his own political party, if there is demand for it. Drucker, who served both in the Government of Robert Fico and briefly in that of his successor Peter Pellegrini, declared himself pleasantly surprised by coming third in a poll of most trusted politicians conducted in early June.
