SNS to field close to 5,000 candidates in local elections

The junior governing Slovak National Party (SNS) will have a total of nearly 5,000 candidates in the local elections set to be held in November, TASR has learned. There are more than 40 candidates that will run for mayor, who will run as candidates of SNS or in a coalition with the national party. In the case of candidates for mayors in villages, SNS has more than 700 candidates. "We can say that the Slovak National Party has 13 candidates for mayors who don't have a rival candidate," head of SNS chairman Andrej Danko's Office Zuzana Skopcova said.