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Slesers: Latvia could share Ukraine's fate without Harmony Center in government

BC, Riga, 22.04.2014.Print version
If during the next elections Harmony Center receives even more votes, but the attitude of the other parties toward Harmony Center does not change and it is not be included in government, Latvia could become "a miniature Ukraine", Ainars Slesers says in an interview with newspaper Diena, cites LETA.

Slesers did not make it to the current parliament, but currently is trying to return using slogans of national reconciliation.

 

Slesers believes that, if other parties agree on the principle "we will not allow Harmony to rule", then, after the elections, this party might dissolve, but there will be no reason to rejoice, because "Lindermans, Osipovs, Zdanoka, etc." will replace it, unite and show that they are the "right ones". "And believe me, the moment the moderate "Harmony" does not exist any more, and the real radicals come to power, many people will prefer them as they will be more frank – they will express people's opinions and urge them to take action", said Slesers. "Revolutions are organized by (...) the minority! It provides a momentum, and the crowd starts to grow larger. Therefore, we have to do everything in our power in order not to allow consolidation of these radical powers."

 

While running in the next parliament elections, Slesers hopes to come to reach agreement with Harmony Center about cooperation. "My aim is to develop an alternative coalition to the current one, which would consist of those who are not in power today, and who would create a united government model before the elections, which, together with all the ministers and programs, would be presented to society, and the new coalition members would sign an economic and national reconciliation program. In order to develop a coalition alternative to the current pseudo-rule-of-law coalition," says Slesers. "May we have two great powers like in America."






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