Friday, July 30, 2010

What does Slovakia really want?

The first bumpy section of the road of coalition is there - given the status quo of the country, it was to be expected. Unfortunately.

Not only the role of the media is questionable, slowly a few faux pas of politicians appear. Whereas the coalition is having a tiny, but serious enough crisis. even coalition partners air their criticism on Facebook visible to everyone. 

The sad part is, that a majority of criticism i.e. arguments are irrelevant, while relevant arguments are categorically ignored. This is causing much distress to the matter, to the extent of becoming perhaps uncontrollable. From the discussion I can but conclude that being open to constructive debates is still an unknown territory, especially when coalition politicians air their unfounded or unfair sentiments into the ether. What is lacking, is a basic respect for a dialogue; the decency to listen to arguments.

Furthermore, the prime minister stated not planning to change the hastily imposed nationalistic law on state symbols. Announcing that rather she does not consider this law being important enough, so no need to worry for inspections... Does it mean, that considering a law unimportant, we can simply ignore it? What's next... the speed limit, the drink-and-drive ban, paying taxes?

We wanted a new political culture. Now the new transparent, decent politics is back to  ignoring each other, mending and bending. Slovakia wanted people without old ties to power. When they appear, they are being ranted at by every one for being amateurs, opportunists and/or naive. What does Slovakia really want then? The signal which goes out to the public is a very dangerous one; and they smell it - further absence of order ahead.

MS

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