2024-02-07 17:46:53
Par Albert Kornél
Published 13 minutes ago, Updated 1 minute ago
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico last October in Brussels. LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP
INVESTIGATION – For several weeks, the Slovak population has been demonstrating regularly in Bratislava and elsewhere in the country. Opponents are worried about the excesses of Prime Minister Robert Fico, who is trying to lock in his power on the model of the Hungarian Viktor Orban.
In Bratislava
Since the beginning of the year, Bratislava has been to the rhythm of demonstrations against Prime Minister Robert Fico. There were another 30,000 protesting last Thursday on National Uprising Square, in the center of Bratislava, against a proposed justice reform and against the authoritarian tendencies of those in power. The protest has spread to around twenty towns in this country of 5.5 million inhabitants. “In 1989, we thought everything was resolved. But thirty-five years later, we realize that the work is not finished and that democracy is a permanent struggle. Otherwise, one fine day, we wake up in an autocracy”, said Petra. The young fifty-year-old, a teacher, is at all the demonstrations called by Progressive Slovakia (PS), the main opposition party, from the liberal left.“Fico is a return to the past and a return to the East, PS it is the future and the West” she decides.
Despite the twenty years of Slovak membership in the European Union…
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