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The head of the ruling Hlas party, Peter Pellegrini, the favorite in the elections, announced his candidacy for the office of Slovak president on Friday evening. However, according to the latest poll by the AKO agency, he has almost no lead over the opposition candidate Ivan Korčok.
Chairman of the Hlas-SD party and former Slovak Prime Minister Peter Pellergini in the elections. | Photo: CTK
What has been talked about in Slovakia since the parliamentary elections there and the entry of the center-left Hlas faction into the Smér government led by has happened Robert Ficus. Namely the fact that the head of the Hlas took over the chairmanship of the speaker of the parliament Peter Pellegrini only temporarily. And that his main goal is the presidency.
Paradoxically, from his current position, Pellegrini personally decided the election date at the turn of March and April. However, whether he actually becomes president will be decided by the votes of Slovak voters, and he is far from certain. As a candidate in the current governing coalition, he has more of a disadvantage than an advantage.
Slovakia needs peace
Pellegrini, who announced his candidacy in his home town of Banská Bystrica, tries to present it the other way around. “Slovakia finally needs peace,” was the slogan he presented in the city.
When revealing his program, he also hit the national tone of the voters of the current governing coalition when he formulated his vision of the president with the words: “The national and state interests of the Slovak Republic must be more important to him than the applause of the elites.” Cheers from the media or pats on the back from world leaders. For him, the self-confident and proud Slovakia must come first. The people, the nation and the state!’
As expected, Peter Pellegrini announced on Friday that he will run for president:
Peter Pellegrini has announced his candidacy for President of Slovakia. He is the favorite of the choice
He also played down the current changes in the criminal code, the public prosecutor’s office and the police, where, for example, penalties for corruption and property crimes are to be reduced. At the same time, tens of thousands of people around the world regularly demonstrate against it Slovakia. The opposition, led by Progressive Slovakia, is using resistance to these problematic changes to mobilize its supporters.
“Slovakia does not live on whether the criminal law is changed. “People need to know whether there will be laws here, whether there will be construction here, whether there will be schools, whether there will be kindergartens and hospitals, what wages and pensions will be like,” said Pellegrini on the country’s current main political issue.
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Pellegrini claims that he doesn’t live with anyone
The presidential candidate also sought to refute the opposition’s main argument, which is that current government power must be balanced by the presidency in non-state hands. “It is a misunderstanding of the president’s true task.” “The president must be the one whom people trust, who they can rely on in difficult times and who they never have to be ashamed of,” said the most popular Slovakian for many months Politician.
Peter Pellegrini is the big favorite in the spring presidential elections in Slovakia. However, according to local political scientist Grigory Mesezhnikov, his election is not certain:
Pellegrini is not sure about the presidential election, says political scientist Mesezhnikov
Until he takes office as president, Pellegrini will not give up the office of speaker of parliament or the ruling party Hlas. However, if elected, he will also leave its leadership.
In his first election appearance, Pellegrini also tried to downplay attacks on his alleged homosexuality by the leader of the ruling Slovak National Party, Andrej Danko, who has also decided to run for head of state. “I don’t share a household with anyone,” he said when asked who his First Lady would be. And he said it would help him focus on his presidential mission.
Pellegrini’s huge lead disappeared
However, shortly before the announcement of the presidential candidacy Pellegrini An unpleasant surprise awaited us in the latest pre-election survey by the AKO agency. According to him, his huge lead from previous polls over the main opposition candidate, former Foreign Minister Ivan Korčok, has been reduced to the level of a statistical error. And that in both the first and second rounds.
In the first case, both candidates, Pellegrini with 40.6% and Korčok with 37.8%, currently have a large lead over all other candidates. According to AKO, Pellegrini would also win in the second round, but also with a lead of less than three percent, i.e. less than the statistical error. Even in December he had a twenty percent lead.
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The fact that he went against Pellegrini in the last two presidential elections Slovaks They preferred the balance of power to the government candidate. Ten years ago, the incumbent Prime Minister Robert Fico, who at the height of his popularity was able to defeat the then unknown entrepreneur and philanthropist Andrej Kiska, a person without any political experience, also paid for this.
Korčok, who was at the helm of Slovak diplomacy for thirty years and was foreign minister for several years, is a much better prepared opponent than Kiska or the current president Zuzana Caputová.
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