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Slovak protests draw 100,000 denouncing pro-Putin tilt by Fico authorities

Slovak protests draw 100,000 denouncing pro-Putin tilt by Fico authorities


“We perceive that this nation’s political management can’t think about that anybody might act freely and independently with out some type of private acquire,” Maštalír mentioned.

The protest rallies, which occurred concurrently in additional than 30 Slovak cities, had been organized by the “Slovakia is Europe” NGO in response to a pointy overseas coverage flip towards Moscow by Fico’s authorities because it took workplace in October 2023. In addition to their calls for for good governance and a extra clear overseas coverage, the organizers known as on Fico to resign.

Fico, who was a member of the Communist Party within the former Czechoslovakia and is serving his fourth time period as Slovak chief, on Dec. 22 met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow in a uncommon go to to the Russian capital by a European chief because the nation invaded Ukraine in 2022. Fico has additionally ended Slovakia’s army help for Ukraine, and has campaigned towards EU sanctions on Russia.

An MP from Fico’s Smer (Direction) party, Tibor Gašpár, instructed the STVR public broadcaster on Jan. 17 that “the door should stay open to a state of affairs after we may finally take into account such a drastic answer as leaving the EU.”

Such sentiments, till not too long ago unthinkable from mainstream politicians within the nation, have galvanized liberal and Westward-leaning Slovaks.

In Prešov in jap Slovakia, some 100 kilometers from the Ukraine border, Eva Kulová, 84, instructed a crowd of seven,000 that “the specter of a coup haunts them [the Fico government] day and night time.”

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