Massive anti-government protests in Slovakia

According to Webangah News quoted by Tasnim News agency, thousands of people in Slovakia against the government of Robert Fico, first The left nationalist minister, who has been in office since the end of October, demonstrated. According to the TA3 news channel, in Bratislava, the capital of the country, in Kosice in the east of the country and in 13 other cities, citizens on Thursday evening They took to the streets and held mass protests. Organized by three opposition parties, the protest was mainly against the planned abolition of the USP Special Prosecutor’s Office responsible for organized and political crimes. >

Fico’s government wants to dissolve the prosecutor’s office because, according to him, it has become too “political”. After a coalition of Fico’s opponents won the 2020 parliamentary elections, Daniel Leipsic, a former politician who belongs to this camp, became the head of the USP with controversial changes in the law. Germany, Fico and his party accused him of abusing the special prosecutor’s office to “destroy” the temporary opposition Social Democrats.

Now that they are back in power, the Social Democrats not only want Leipzig but they also want to dissolve the entire power. Therefore, the opposition warns of a threat to the rule of law and accuses the government of trying to cover up the corruption cases of previous Fico administrations.

Protesters on Thursday carried banners with slogans such as Fiko, stop!” and “Fico to jail!” And they carried “You are not allowed to do everything”. In the European Union on how to continue the arms aid to Ukraine