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RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol 2, No. 57, 24 March 1998
KOVAC TO HEAD SLOVAK OPPOSITION PETITION DRIVE. Former President Michal
Kovac is to head a petition drive organized by the opposition Slovak
Democratic Coalition and the Hungarian Coalition to protest the Movement
for a Democratic Slovakia's (HZDS) intention to change the electoral law.
Under the current law, both individual parties and alliances of parties
must pass a 5 percent threshold. The HZDS, however, wants to add 5 percent
to that figure for every member in an alliance. The drive is also aimed at
demanding the election of the country's president by popular vote, RFE/RL's
Bratislava bureau reported. The gathering of the 100,000 necessary
signatures will start on 25 March, the day marking the 10th anniversary of
the anti-communist demonstration in Bratislava. MS
ROMANIAN WEEKLY CALLS FOR 'FINAL SOLUTION.' In an editorial published on 16
March in the xenophobic weekly "Atac la persoana," editor in chief Dragos
Dumitru says the recent events in Kosovo demonstrate that U.S. policy is
based on force and on the principle of "whoever is not with us is against
us." He says NATO's "Terminator plans" are based on inciting national
minorities and that the only possible defense against such plans is "the
elimination of dangerous national minorities through any available means,"
ranging from "cultural assimilation to physical extermination." Dumitru
says that after Serbia, Romania will become NATO's "next target" and that,
"painful as this may sound, we have to prepare for the final solution." In
a hint to the Hungarian ethnic minority, he ends the editorial by saying
that "perhaps this [intention] should be displayed on multi-lingual signs."
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RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol 2, No. 58, 25 March 1998
SESELJ JOINS SERBIAN GOVERNMENT. The Serbian parliament on
24 March approved a new 35-member government consisting of Milosevic's
Serbian Socialist Party, United Yugoslav Left, led by his wife Mirjana
Markovic, and Vojislav Seselj's Serbian Radical Party. Seselj becomes a
deputy prime minister. Spokesmen for the opposition parties Vojvodina
Coalition, Union of Vojvodina Hungarians, New Democracy, and the
Muslim List for Sandzak said the government "will lead the country to
disaster and to new conflicts with the international community," RFE/RL
reported. PM
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