"Hungarians don't want to topple govt."

SVM leader Ištvan Pastor says the adoption of the draft law on national councils is good news, but that other important issues need to be discussed with the DS.

Izvor: Dnevnik

Saturday, 04.07.2009.

12:26

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SVM leader Istvan Pastor says the adoption of the draft law on national councils is good news, but that other important issues need to be discussed with the DS. “There are still a number of things that we have to discuss with the Democrats so that we can adopt a final position on our further policy in the national parliamentary majority,” the Union of Vojvodina Hungarians (SVM) leader told daily Dnevnik. "Hungarians don't want to topple govt." He denied that his party was building its influence in the coalition through political pressure, stating that public life should not function on that model of political activity, though experience had shown that certain pressure was the only recourse available to the smaller parties to ensure that earlier agreements were honored. On the subject of the Vojvodina statute and the Law on the Transfer of Jurisdictions, Pastor said that he was not a pessimist, but a realist, as there were no new grounds to state that this issue had got moving again, or that there was any chance of the issue coming before the national parliament any time soon. “I think that the Democratic Party’s (DS) assessment is swayed by the fact that that move would compromise their rating, which is why they’ve elected for the method of ‘hovering’ the question of the statute. That approach neither repels those who advocate autonomy, nor overly irritates those who favor a centrally structured state. In essence, it’s pulling the hand brake right up, and going round in circles,” said the Vojvodina Hungarian leader. According to Pastor, talks between the SVM and the opposition parties “in no way mean regrouping, nor the SVM moving to another bloc,” and would focus on the political situation in the country and issues that are of particular importance to the SVM. He reiterated that the SVM had no ambitions of bringing the government down.

"Hungarians don't want to topple govt."

He denied that his party was building its influence in the coalition through political pressure, stating that public life should not function on that model of political activity, though experience had shown that certain pressure was the only recourse available to the smaller parties to ensure that earlier agreements were honored.

On the subject of the Vojvodina statute and the Law on the Transfer of Jurisdictions, Pastor said that he was not a pessimist, but a realist, as there were no new grounds to state that this issue had got moving again, or that there was any chance of the issue coming before the national parliament any time soon.

“I think that the Democratic Party’s (DS) assessment is swayed by the fact that that move would compromise their rating, which is why they’ve elected for the method of ‘hovering’ the question of the statute. That approach neither repels those who advocate autonomy, nor overly irritates those who favor a centrally structured state. In essence, it’s pulling the hand brake right up, and going round in circles,” said the Vojvodina Hungarian leader.

According to Pastor, talks between the SVM and the opposition parties “in no way mean regrouping, nor the SVM moving to another bloc,” and would focus on the political situation in the country and issues that are of particular importance to the SVM.

He reiterated that the SVM had no ambitions of bringing the government down.

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