Political party of today's Prime Minister Robert Fico Smer-SD won the general elections reaching 34.79 - percent of votes. Despite the results SMER-SD won't be able to form a coalition as its former coalition partners Slovak National Party and HZDS didn't reach enough of votes.

Prime Minister Robert Fico on Sunday morning declared his party to be the sovereign winner of Saturday's general election and announced that he will initiate talks on post-election co-operation with all parties that have made it into Parliament, starting with the most successful ones (i.e. SDKU-DS and SaS).

If Smer fails in the negotiations, it will respect the rightist parties in their venture to form up a coalition, said Fico.

Representatives of the right-wing parties ruled out any co-operation with Smer-SD regarding the forming of the future Government without SMER-SD.

The general election result is a "beautiful morning miracle", said SDKU-DS election leader Iveta Radicova on Sunday early morning shortly before all votes were counted.

"Not only an alternative is possible, but people have also decided for it," she commented on the results, adding that nobody would believe a few weeks ago that it is possible.

Radicova at the same time congratulated the winner of the election - Smer-SD party chaired by Prime Minister Robert Fico, but ruled out co-operation with the party. "It isn't enough to win the election, you should also have a coalition potential," she noted.

She confirmed that the first consultations with fellow-rightist parties Freedom and Solidarity (SaS), Most-Hid and Christian Democrats (KDH) have already taken place and they should hold unofficial bilateral meetings on Sunday as well. According to Radicova, leaders of the aforementioned parties gave her sufficient assurances that they won't allow co-operation with Smer-SD. "As far as I know, their statements were clear," she said.

She commented on the narrow difference in the number of coalition and opposition seats in the future Parliament by stating that they have already found themselves in such a situation, even in times when necessary economical reforms were needed and were also carried out.

"It isn't a problem to govern easily, when the economy is boosted. It's very responsible to take up the burden of government when Slovakia, as well as many other countries, has serious problems and will has to take important measures," she said, expressing hopes that the country will become "the tiger of Europe" again.

The SDKU election leader also thanked SDKU-DS chairman Mikulas Dzurinda for his unusual step - giving up his candidacy on SDKU-DS slate - so that "he could unblock the unbelievably dirty attacks against SDKU". Radicova refused to speculate, however, whether there would be a place for Dzurinda in the future government.

According to Dzurinda, the most important thing is to make such decisions that Slovakia could have a new government as soon as possible. "I don't want to comment on this anymore," he added.

SDKU-DS candidate number two Ivan Miklos didn't want to speak about his chances to become the new finance minister or leave the seat for SaS chairman Richard Sulik either.

(SKTODAY / TASR / TASR Photo)