Bugar says can't imagine being coalition's joint presidential candidate

Junior governing coalition Most-Hid party chairman Bela Bugar, who's running for president in the spring election, has told TASR that he can't imagine becoming the joint presidential candidate of the coalition (Most-Hid plus Smer-SD and the Slovak National Party/SNS). Most-Hid a few months ago approached its coalition partners with a proposal to discuss a joint candidate, but no agreement was reached, noted Bugar. "Can you imagine the strongest parliamentary party not presenting its own candidate? I can't. They can't afford that," said Bugar. Pointing to the relatively high number of people who've already announced their bids, Bugar warned that a person with "extreme opinions" could advance to the election run-off.