Big plans Together a year and a half after the election debacle: There is another connection in the game, Hipš has announced the end! – Topky

Information about the possibility of re-cooperation came at the same time as the chairman of the TOTAL party Juraj Hipš confirmed that he was ending his post. She brought the information TV JOJ. “It’s not that I don’t like it,” he told them. He added that he planned “to present a new vision”. This should be the merger with the Progressive Slovakia party.

Despite the fact that barely a year and a half have passed since the electoral failure of February 2020, both sides have undergone changes and several new faces have also appeared in them. Since 2020, Progressive Slovakia has been headed by Irena Bihari, the party’s two-time vice-president. Her profession is a lawyer, she has specialized in the field of extremism crimes for many years and has also been dealing with anti-Gypsyism and public attitudes towards minorities for more than eight years.

She took over the leadership of the party after the unsuccessful election leader Michal Truban, who, together with Miroslav Beblavý from SPOLU, belonged to the faces of the two-party coalition before the last parliamentary elections. However, they gained only 6.97 percent. As a coalition, they needed to exceed the 7 percent quorum by law.

Source: Topky / Vlado Anjel

The TOTAL party has also undergone changes in terms of membership. Juraj Hipš became chairman in April 2020, when he replaced Beblavý. It was originally legitimate until 2023, but that should change after the September parliament. In addition, in recent months, their advice has been strengthened by followers from For People like Miroslav Kollár and Anrea Letanovská.

Source: Topky / Ján Zemiar

Progressives are joining open

Progressive Slovakia, in connection with a possible merger of forces for Topky.sk, stated that the Together party was their closest partner from the beginning. “Progressive Slovakia is open to uniting with anyone who shares our liberal, green and social values ​​and with whom we can create a real alternative to the amateur government coalition, as well as the corrupt opposition,” Radovan Choleva, the party’s director of communications, responded.