"The referendum is invalid, and the treasury is 160 million crowns [$3.2 million] poorer." Jozef Migaš, Speaker of Parliament and the head of the ruling coalition Party of the Democratic Left (SDĽ), reacting to the results of the HZDS-initiated referendum on early elections. |
"We voted in the referendum because we are Slovak... not Hungarian!" A Bratislava citizen after casting his vote in the November 11 referendum on early elections after being asked by a reporter why he and his wife had participated in the plebiscite. |