2024-05-19 08:10:42
Energy has all the time been an enormous attraction for Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, however now the state of affairs is completely different and it will be shocking if he needed to proceed as Prime Minister. Longtime Slovak commentator and reporter Eugen Korda says this in an interview for Aktuálně.cz. In response to Korda, Fico, who stays in a critical situation within the hospital after Wednesday’s assassination, has a comparatively clear successor in his Smér-SD celebration.
Outgoing Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová and her successor Peter Pellegrini, in response to Wednesday’s assault, invited representatives of the federal government and opposition events to 1 desk so that everybody may calm the state of affairs collectively. Nonetheless, Korda believes that political reconciliation is at present not potential in Slovakia.
“I do not suppose that the vice-chairman of Fico’s Smér-SD celebration Ľuboš Blaha, the pinnacle of the federal government celebration Andrej Danko and the chief of the opposition Progressive Slovakia Michal Šimečka will sit down on the similar desk and challenge a joint assertion. I might say that Blaha will certainly not do it, even when the federal government and the opposition is ‘pickpocketing’, however what’s necessary is what’s going to occur subsequent. I’m involved and I might say for certain that there will probably be no reconciliation and peace of arms,” the editor of Týždeň journal thinks for Aktuálně.cz.
Blaha and Danko blame the assault on the opposition and the so-called liberal media. Danko already introduced on Friday that he’ll come to the assembly on the presidential palace provided that Fico himself recommends it.
There is no such thing as a detailed data on the state of well being of the Prime Minister and the pinnacle of the Smér-SD celebration, who was critically injured by an attacker throughout an outing assembly in Handlová. In response to authorities sources, he’s acutely aware, his situation is steady, however stays critical. He underwent two operations and on Monday the docs are to determine on a potential switch to a hospital in Bratislava, he’s now hospitalized in Banská Bystrica.
The journalist doesn’t anticipate Fitz to return to the prime minister’s chair. “I might be shocked if he needed to return again. It should be an enormous shock to the psyche once you see that somebody is coming to kill you. He’s nearly sixty, he has a sick coronary heart, he’s properly financially safe. As well as, he has in his celebration the successor of the present deputy prime minister and of Protection Minister Robert Kaliňák. I believe it may end up like this. Sure, energy has all the time been an enormous attraction for Fico, regardless that he beforehand promised to go away politics,” Korda believes.
He expects the federal government to get more durable in making an attempt to alter the state of affairs in public tv and radio, which the present cupboard is already making an attempt to do, and won’t consider the opinions of the opposition or critics. “They are going to tighten the screws on the media and nobody will cease them, not even a reconciliation settlement. Now they are going to be on the horse, as a result of their political preferences will rise, they are going to have extra assist. The course may have a brand new chief Robert Kaliňák. A succesful and on the similar time a politician with out character,” says Korda.
Slovak journalist Eugen Korda | Photograph: Profimedia
In response to the police, 71-year-old Juraj Cintula was behind Wednesday’s assault, who was arrested on the spot and later charged with tried homicide. He faces 25 years to life in jail.
Korda criticizes the work of the police. In response to him, he “abuses the state of affairs in a horrible manner”. “There are leaks of knowledge, however they all the time purpose to put the blame for the act on the opposition and journalists. I’ve no confidence within the police, as a result of this authorities has completely devastated it,” he claims. As lately as Wednesday, a video was leaked on the Web wherein the arrested man admits that he shot on the prime minister and that he’s an opponent of the federal government’s coverage.
On Friday, the police searched the bomber’s residence and introduced Cintula there with them. Korda doesn’t need to anticipate the shooter’s motives. “Up to now, I can’t characterize the attacker, as a result of the details about him is fragmentary and contradictory. We all know that he moved in several environments, he’s such a ‘quasi-poet’. He was in numerous associations, together with pro-Russian ones. In response to neighbors, he hated Fico, so it’s tough to put him embrace,” he provides. In response to Inside Minister Matúš Šutaj Eštok (Hlas-SD), the act was politically motivated.
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