The new coalition, forged by the threat of an another imminent Fico term, have shaped its coalition allegiance through their common vision of no more corruption and a new bur decent political culture.
Little fantasy is needed to understand why. Likewise, it must be admitted, little is needed to belong to the new coalition camp and their supporters. That in itself is becoming a threat as well - as the moral barrier is not always high enough. One of the immediate litmus tests was the electing of ex premier Fico to become a deputy chairman of the Slovak parliament, albeit the 5th in line.
Though it is true, that any opposition party is to be included and should receive a fair chance getting votes for a seat in any of the parliament's posts or committees, voting especially a person, who has repeatedly been treading upon democratic principles, was visibly involved in questionable deals and scandals (or at least politically responsible for them) is far more than a bitter disillusion.
The mere fact, that the number of (secret) votes implies, that several coalition representatives have given their blessings to Fico's political leeway. Moreover, a racist neo-fascist party is in charge of the committees on minorities.
A new political culture is perhaps very desirable and indeed requested by a considerable amount of electorate. The behaviour of individual politicians is, however, not yet fully in line with such a new culture. The only parliament member, who had the moral spine to remind his colleagues of this, was Ondrej Dostál. A solo-action. Still a long learning process ahead of us...
MS
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