“Slovakia is Europe” protests were held in Bratislava and in almost 30 other cities in Slovakia and abroad on Friday evening. According to the organizers of the protests, people gathered to express their disagreement with the current direction of the country and to demonstrate support for democratic values and the European future of Slovakia. During the protests, people chanted for Prime Minister Robert Fico to resign.
The next day was Prime Minister Fico, where he also responded to the Friday protests and declared that he would not step down and comply with the demand of tens of thousands of people. The Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic told the Slovaks that the government can be changed only after the parliamentary elections. “It doesn’t say 2018,” he declared Fico, referring to the protests after the murder of journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancee Martina Kušnírová, after whom he was replaced in the positions by Peter Pellegrini.
A Slovak actor responded to Robert Fico’s words over the weekend Juraj Loj (40). “I don’t believe… Mr. Fico, this is already for diagnosis,” he wrote on his Instagram. PHOTO can be found in the gallery!
Psychiatrists and psychologists sent an open letter to the prime minister
Experts in the field of psychiatry and psychology addressed an open letter to Prime Minister Robert Fico, written by psychiatrist and head of the Psychiatric Clinic of the Faculty Hospital in Trenčín Jozef Hašto and psychologist and forensic expert Anton Heretik. The open letter was signed by 105 experts from the field of psychology and psychiatry.
“Dear Prime Minister, we address you with an open letter as citizens and professionals in the field of psychiatry and psychology. The threat to democracy in Slovakia and the international status of our state leads us to comment on your political behavior and public appearance. We emphasize in advance that we do not want to evaluate your personality and will only focus on behavior from publicly available sources.” they wrote in the introduction.
They also mentioned the recent incident between student Simon and President Peter Pellegrini. “Comment disrespectfully towards young peoplewho oppose your politics, mockingly evaluate a young man’s complexion, send a remote ‘educational slap’ to a student who refused to shake the hand of a political representative whom he does not respect. It was you who, at your political demonstrations with your party members, encouraged the crowd to call the then president vulgar,” they reminded.
“We assume, Mr. Prime Minister, that you know about that, right this is not the first letter from mental health experts to the prime minister of the country. On May 12, 1998, the overwhelming majority of the participants of the Slovak Psychiatric Congress in Košice signed a letter to Vladimír Mečiar. “Many of the reservations about his policy, which the letter contained, related to similar topics, especially the threat to democracy and the inclusion of the country in European and transatlantic structures,” they said. “We hope for your capacity for self-reflection and the possibility of correcting your political behavior, including considering leaving top politics,” they referred him to the conclusion.
