atic elections in harmony with international law and the possibility for the citizens to elect their president directly. The KBS also demands that Slovak Television provide Slovak citizens with objective information and not manipulate public opinion. The KBS, in its open letter to Slovak Prime Minister Vladimír Mečiar and Slovak Speaker of Parliament Ivan Gašparovič, claims that the situation in Slovakia evokes great concern. Banská Bystrica diocese Bishop and KBS Chair Rudolf Baláž, KBS Secretary General Peter Dubovský, Košice Arch-Bishop Aloiz Tkáč, Košice Assistant Bishop Bernard Bober, Spiš Diocese Bishop František Tondra, Rožňava Diocese Bishop Eduard Kojnok, Košice Exarch Milan Chautur, Spiš Assistant Bishop Andrej Imrich, and Trnava Assistant Bishop Vladimír Filo signed the letter. The document suggests that internal discrepancies, uneasiness, and anxiety are consuming Slovakia and citizens are loosing their sensitivity and sense towards ethic and moral values. Mainly, the feeding of political hatred, irrespective of whether one is a sympathizer or opposer of the ruling coalition, has caused this state. The permanent polarization of society, artificially fed and heated hatred against national minorities, and the rejection the rulings of the Constitutional Court also contributes to this state. The reluctance to deal with organized crime, according to the Bishops, is evoking the fear that Mafia has infiltrated political circles. The Cabinet is shaping groups of wealthy people who gain uncontrollable power; moreover, it has no will to solve the social problems that cause a decline in the birth rate, the Bishops declare. n the international sphere, Slovakia is sinking into isolation while the economic and political consequences are systematically concealed from the public. The Cabinet refuses to take into consideration the advice and recommendations of democratic countries, a club of which Slovakia, ostensibly, wishes to join. In the moral sphere, it is mainly subverting moral values at every level of the society, vulgarity, thirst for profit, and frauds. The Bishops offer the Cabinet and Parliament their help in easing the polarization in society, in education for national and religious tolerance, in the care of youth, and in the cultivation of believers` social conscience.