Chairman of the member of the ruling coalition, the Slovak National Party (SNS) Jan Slota has been angered by statements of the head of the opposition Hungarian Coalition Party (SMK) Pal Csaky, who called the SNS extreme, xenophobic and racist in his letter addressed to deputies of the European Parliament (EP). "I certainly will not have it that a man who may be called a posthumous offspring of the Horthy regime talks about our party in that way," Mr. Slota told SITA News Agency. He intends to contact appropriate bodies in this issue. In a letter from September 10 addressed to MEP Jean-Marie Cavada, Mr. Csaky pointed out to the proposal by which the SNS allegedly wanted to strengthen the content and meaning of the Benes decrees. He claimed that Slovakia, being an EU member state, wanted to boost the principle of collective guilt, which would be an attack on German and Hungarian national minorities in Slovakia. The head of SMK asked Mr. Cavada to use his contacts to halt the establishment of such a "shameful" document.
SMK leader considers the parliamentary resolution declaring post-war documents (the so-called Benes Decrees) untouchable an irrelevant piece of paper. The Slovak National Party, in contrast, regards it as declarative. "We have to look at this from a complex point of view, since the Slovak National Party wants to incorporate these matters into penal level of the Law on the Protection of the Republic. Its wording will take a form of paragraph with penal endings and, then, Mr. Csaky will no longer take it as a scrap of paper," added Mr. Slota.
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