Video report on the opening of Zilina's four-storey car park: the largest and only the second multi-storey car park in Slovakia. Comes from Slotavision, the mayor's mouthpiece, TV Patriot. What's more, As a Christmas gift, according to his honour, Zilina folk can use the car park free of charge until the new year. I hope they appreciate it, he said. Slota's folk will be able to show their appreciation on 2 December in the local elections.
Rather unfortunately, Slota's main opponent, Ivan Harman, kicked off his campaign with an interview in the non-Slota local paper where he complained about the bad parking situation in town and how noone knows what the "Zilina parking company" does with all its money. He has got a point. Zilina has the highest charges for street parking in Slovakia, and all that money goes into a private company (together with the income from fines earned by their very active wheel clampers). But now there is this car park as a sort of answer from Slota.
Some reports about Slota would have you believe we spend all our time here having torch-lit processions and burning Hungarian products, but the basis of Slota's success is a local machine politics that does deliver (at least at election time). We've got our car park, and our successful town sports teams. God knows what percent gets skimmed off in producing this stuff but at least stuff gets produced and people point to it and say but he's done a lot for the town.
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