Four more candidates for President
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Last night was the deadline for people to submit their candidacy for President. Four people submitted their names at the last moment, bringing the total to 11 candidates.
Marian Kotleba, of the LSNS Party, which is not currently in parliament because it didn’t get the minimum required number of votes, said yesterday he would be the candidate for the person “who does not want Slovakia to end up in the hands of the globalists.“
I haven’t had time to write a specific programme, but there is time for that, he said.
Jan Kubis, a career diplomat who served as foreign minister in the first cabinet of Robert Fico, also offered his candidacy. He will run as an independent.
“I think that Slovakia does not deserve the deepening of contradictions, polarization and the introduction of party politics into the presidential office,” he said. He left politics after two years, in 2008, when he got a job at the United Nations in Geneva.
And former prime minister Igor Matovic, weighed, yesterday evening. He said he doesn’t want to be president, he just wants to spice up the debate in the first round he said.
He said he will be asking questions of his competitors, on behalf of the voters. “I want to create a corridor of truth and ask possibly unpleasant but adequate questions.”
The party of Igor Matovic also put forward the historian Patrik Dubovský as a candidate.
Parliamentary Chair Peter Pellegrini now has 14 days to examine whether the candidates meet the conditions stipulated by the law.
The election will be on March 23, a little over seven weeks. Candidates are allowed to spend a maximum of half a million euros on campaigning. The campaign will end 48 hours before election day.
(TASR, RTVS)
