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It may take another week or two at most. But the abolition of the special prosecutor’s office and other changes in Slovakia’s legal environment will take place in the coming weeks. Of course, if we combine the upcoming changes with law enforcement, in some cases even with the conviction of people in the neighborhood Premiere Roberta Fica and other government parties, one can understand the thousands of people on the streets of Slovak cities protesting with concern.
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But as a high-ranking Czech prosecutor told me recently, the mere fact that the Slovak special prosecutor’s office is being abolished is not a violation of the principle of the rule of law. Likewise the change in penalty rates. The fact that the theft of a new car or the whitewashing of an apartment should only be made subject to a new condition is a cry to heaven and should not remain in the law.
And apparently, if they accept thanks to the protests, Slovak government politicians Reason in a handful, then this obvious nonsense and these tools will not remain there.
But that will be all. Maybe there will be one or two more resolutions from the European Parliament, some reviews by the European Commission, but at the end of the day it will probably turn out that what happened in Slovakia in the field of law, the country is not in a country transforms into a new Hungary or a new Poland from the time of Jarosław Kaczyński.
Korčok would calm people down
Robert Fico added his visits to Uzhgorod and Berlinwhich was complemented by the trip to Brussels by Parliament President Peter Pellegrini, clearly shows that he is ready to move within the limits that will not remove Slovakia from the field of democratic states drawn up by the European Commission.
And on matters of pan-European interest, especially with EU aid to Ukraine, Fico’s Slovakia is prepared not to cause trouble, despite the rhetoric before and after the election. Neither Fico nor Kaczyński want to be the new Orbán. And not similar at all Vladimir Meciarwhich turned Slovakia into the black hole of Europe.
Protests in Slovak cities and streets cannot and should not affect the legitimacy of the current governing majority. But they can help the opposition mobilize its voters, who will offset Fico’s majority in parliament in the spring presidential election by electing a president who will be a real corrective to government policy.
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Even with Peter Pellegrini at the head of the state, democracy in Slovakia would not end; Slovakia had more problematic presidents. But Confidence in Pellegrini’s independent politics is not particularly large in a large part of Slovak society.
In order to calm the situation and the mood in Slovak society, the role of president would undoubtedly be more advantageous for the figure of the experienced diplomat Ivan Korčok. It wouldn’t take much away from Fico, but it could restore peace to the part of Slovakia that is afraid of the new government.
Be reassured that neither democracy nor the rule of law will come to an end in Slovakia.
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