The Slovak Parliament approved the government’s controversial media plan

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency, quoted by Germany’s “NTV”, in Slovakia’s parliament approves liquidation of public broadcaster RTVS. Before the vote in Bratislava, opposition parties and RTVS employees protested against this controversial plan for months. In the end, all 78 representatives from the three ruling Social Democratic and Nationalist parties voted for this controversial law. However, the opposition representatives of the parliament left the meeting room in protest and boycotted the vote.

Martina Simkovicova, the nationalist culture minister, and Robert Fico, the left-wing populist prime minister of Slovakia, repeatedly criticized the RTVS reports. They have been criticized as biased against them, however, they could not remove the director general and the team of this network, who were elected by the previous parliamentary majority for a term of representation until 2027, due to the existing legal conditions of the broadcaster’s dissolution This obstacle will no longer exist.

Thus, RTVS is to be replaced by a new broadcaster, STVR, after which critics have been accusing the government for months It has turned the station into a pro-government mouthpiece. Tens of thousands of people repeatedly followed the opposition’s call to protest in the first few months of the year. However, after the opposition’s defeat in the presidential election in Beginning in April and the assassination attempt on Prime Minister Fico on May 15, the protest movement weakened. Recently, only a few hundred people took to the streets in Bratislava on Tuesday against the government and its media programs.

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