On Monday, January 21, an extraordinary meeting was held in the National Assembly of the Slovak Republic on the opposition’s motion of no confidence in the government. The meeting was closed by the vice-chairman of the NR SR Peter Žiga without voting on the proposal. Eduard Chmelár, the former adviser to Prime Minister Robert Fico, also decided to comment on the course of the meeting on the social network.
“It must not be done like this, damn it. I will openly admit that I originally wanted to laugh at the opposition in this place. Because what Michal Šimečka demonstrated in the parliament today is a headache. This is not what the leader of the opposition looks like, but a frustrated loser who returns from work in the evening by tram and on the way swears incoherently at the boss, at the minister, at the president, at God, at his wife, at his whole screwed-up life, which he can’t deal with“, he wrote harsh words about the chairman of Progressive Slovakia.
He was said not to be surprised by Šimečka’s words. “But I want to stay on the objective level, so I will limit myself to only some parts of his speech, with which he justified motion of no confidence in the Prime Minister. I want to respond to a few more important things,” he clarified.
“Simečka, in an emotionally moralizing spirit, reproached the prime minister for talking about the Maidan. He called it dangerous, because the Maidan is said to mean a hundred dead from the government forces. Let’s put aside the fact that today most serious studies question this official version of the coup plotters, who shot on the Kyiv square in 2014. Let’s rather focus on the fact that Šimečka is insidiously turning the whole debate, because it was not Robert Fico who first started talking about the Maidan,” said Chmelár. He then also addressed Fico’s last visits abroad.
“But in the end, what is left of my mind when people like Michal Šimečka can call Turkey a dictatorship and Ukraine a democratic state. According to the Index of democracy, Turkey and Ukraine are side by side in the same group of hybrid regimes. They are not democracies. They do not have a functioning democratic system, the courts are corrupt, the opposition media are banned, the opposition leaders are either in prison or in exile. But this is a typical two-faced approach of progressives to foreign policy,” he added. He mentioned that he himself was an opponent of Turkish President Erdogan.
