Election23: Democrats Don't Intend to Withdraw from Battle Due to Low Support

Bratislava, August 2 (TASR) - The Democrats party doesn't count on the scenario of withdrawing from the political election battle; it still wants to fight for voters' support, party's election leader Andrea Letanovska told a press conference on Wednesday in response to a question about party's low support among voters. Letanovska said that they take polls seriously. Based on them, according to her, two scenarios can be expected after the election, namely a government composed of Smer-SD, Voice-SD and the fascists, or that the cabinet will be formed by Progressive Slovakia. According to her, this party doesn't have experience in governing in difficult times and would be exposed to cooperation with partners who "have already shown what they are capable of". "When it will rule with [SaS leader Richard] Sulik and [OLANO head Igor] Matovic, nothing good awaits us," she claimed, adding that she sees the only possibility to form a stable government in that the Democrats will be part of it. As for the party's low support among voters, Letanovska said that the 'OLANO and Friends' coalition or SaS are in the same danger zone. She didn't exclude these parties from possible post-election cooperation but she spoke out against the behaviour of Igor Matovic and Richard Sulik. According to Letanovska, the Democrats have prepared a series of measures with which they want to help people if they are in the future government, including stabilisation of the health-care system, social assistance to the weak, employment support, justice, the rule of law as well as Slovakia's clear pro-Western foreign policy orientation. am/mcs