Ethnic Hungarian parties in Slovakia mull merging

Extraparliamentary Hungarian Forum (MF) and SMK, Slovak parties of the country's substantial ethnic Hungarian minority, are holding talks on cooperation, MF head Zsolt Simon told TASR on Tuesday. The parties agreed they would not cooperate with Smer-SD, the Slovak National Party (SNS) and the far-right People's Party Our Slovakia (LSNS). At the meeting, SMK proposed merging the two parties, Simon said. Junior ruling party Most-Hid is also set to negotiate with them.