Slovakia is in the course of 9 months of elections: citizens are requested to walk to the polls 4 instances between September 2023 and June 2024. They already elected a untouched Slovak parliament; Robert Fico made a plenty comeback and was top minister for the fourth era.
In March and April Slovakia elected the untouched president who will substitute Zuzana Čaputová, first feminine president in Slovak historical past. Next fierce struggle and top turnout, former PM and Fico’s best friend Peter Pellegrini will develop into the untouched Slovak president. And in June Slovak citizens will elect 15 contributors of the Ecu Parliament.
With this in thoughts none must be shocked that a couple of weeks earlier than Ecu elections there’s principally incorrect marketing campaign taking park. We will see only some billboards within the streets and one is anticipating that the turnout in June later this hard generation gained’t be very top.
It will be not anything untouched. Slovakia has been a member of the Ecu Union for twenty years. Since upcoming we’ve voted in 4 Ecu elections. Slovakia had the bottom turnout amongst all nations within the EU in each considered one of them, even later untouched Balkan states corresponding to Croatia or Bulgaria joined the bloc.
Our lowest turnout used to be 13% in 2014. 5 years next turnout used to be upper – however nonetheless quite above 22%. It displays that Slovak citizens don’t pay a lot consideration to the Ecu Parliament or don’t really feel that few Slovak MEPs can assemble a lot remaining even supposing two of them were vice-president of the Ecu Parliament lately.
The controversy in Slovak politics within the terminating months is targeted at the untouched govt which has adopted the stairs of the Hungarian or former Polish govt at a quick occasion. Robert Fico has been accused of corruption right through earlier phrases. He stepped ailing in 2018 later probably the most immense protests in fresh Slovak historical past which have been brought on by means of the homicide of Slovak journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancee Martina Kušnírová.
