What are Slovaks expecting from Robert Fico’s new government?
Robert Fico has become Slovakia's new Prime Minister. His left-populist Smer party won against the liberal, Western-oriented Progressive Slovakia by nearly 7 percentage points.
Euronews Hungary took to the streets of Bratislava to find out what are Slovaks expecting from his new government.
Euronews Hungary took to the streets of Bratislava to find out what are Slovaks expecting from his new government.
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00:00 Robert Fico has become Slovakia`s new prime minister. He`s left populist smear party won
00:05 the national election three and a half weeks ago with 23 percent of the vote, beating the
00:10 liberal western oriented progressive Slovakia by nearly seven percentage points.
00:21 So what are Slovaks expecting from their new government? Euronews Hungary took to the streets
00:26 of Bratislava to find out.
00:30 What we expect economically from the upcoming years is nothing good. So hopefully it won`t
00:36 be that bad as it seems at the moment, demographically speaking as well. So hopefully not too many
00:42 young educated people will leave this country and hopefully there will be no backlash in
00:49 terms of human rights as well.
00:51 We have no money after war in Ukraine and after COVID, but maybe we will have more stable
01:03 government and maybe less anger. I hope so.
01:11 Fico`s full term follows his resignation as PM in 2018 amid mass protests over the murder
01:18 of journalist Jan Kucak, who had been investigating high level corruption. Fico`s political resurrection
01:24 has taken many by surprise. As our correspondent reports.
01:29 Five and a half years ago, it was not thought that Robert Fico would ever become Slovakian
01:35 prime minister. The former prime minister would have liked to form a government as soon
01:40 as possible, so that he could represent Slovakia at the EU summit next week.
01:44 Robert Fico could be one of the key figures of European politics in the coming years,
01:49 as after the change of government, he will be the only European ally of Hungarian Prime
01:55 Minister Viktor Orbán.
01:57 Magyar Attila, Euronews, Bozsony.
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