more and more nationalistic tenses in Slovakian public.There were two branches of Slovak attitude towards federation. One was represented by Jan Carnogursky and second by Vladimir Meciar. The first one wanted to split and to have Slovakia as a sovereign country, second wanted to have some kind of federation, but confederation sounded better to them. After elections on 8-9. July 1990 in Slovakia, Meciar was chosen as a prime minister of Slovakian government. In Czech, Valtr Komarek was chosen as a prime minister. So Meciar started to negotiate with Czechs. Czech representation led by Komarek strongly refused any kind of confederation. But Komarek was not as much a politician as Meciar was, so he wasn’t prepared for such a negotiation with him. On 8-9. August 1990, Meciar started negotiations in Trencanske Teplice. He told to Czech representation, that he has a mandate of VPN and Slovakian government, but it wasn’t truth. Prime ministers of national governments were dissatisfied with the position of national governments. Calfa, prime minister of federation government refused to negotiate with them after couple of days and left. They chose a perfect time for such a negotiation, because federal government and president had vacation, so they were actually negotiating without any legitimate mandate.After this negotiation, Meciar said that it is not possible for Czech representation to negotiate about confederation, and so is for Slovaks. And even impossible is to negotiate about Slovakian sovereign state. Then on 12. December 1990, competent law was passed by federal government. It moved lots of responsibilities of federal government to local Czech and Slovak republics. Than OF and VPN dissolved. From OF emerged ODS led by Vaclav Klaus and OH led by Diensbier. VPN didn’t like Meciar’s politics, so they wanted from him to talk good about them in his speeches, including his 10min television relations. But Meciar didn...
