Slovakian prime minister attacks coalition partners

Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico is pressing for an enquiry into how leading politicians amassed considerable fortunes following the Velvet Revolution. The conservative opposition approves of the plan, but Fico's coalition partners, the People's Party - Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS) and the Slovak National Party (SNS) do not, writes the left-leaning daily Pravda. Above all the chairman of the HZDS and former prime minister "Vladimír Mečiar is opposed to the law before it's even been passed, likening it to state expropriation. But this is just the reaction Fico was hoping for. His property law is nothing more than an election tactic, a well thought out media ploy. Rather than crossing swords with the opposition with whom Fico has no need to fight, the law is an attack on Mečiar and [the head of the extreme right-wing nationalist SNS party Ján] Slota and their weaknesses - their dubious relationship to property and belongings. The prime minister needs to have it out with the HZDS and the SNS before the elections."

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