After last year’s assassination of Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD), the confrontation was clearly escalated after last year’s assassination. Stated this for TASR Political scientist Juraj Marušiak from the Slovak Academy of Sciences. The government coalition blames the opposition of political responsibility for the assassination. According to him, abuse of the assassination in political struggle is thus overthrown into questioning the legitimacy of state institutions. He described it as a very dangerous trend.
“The government coalition blames the opposition of political responsibility for the assassination, challenging its legitimacy to criticize government policies. Moreover, he describes the perpetrator without any evidence as an opposition activist, as documented by his participation in some opposition actions. He said for TASR Marušiak, saying that it is not yet known that he had an attacker.
“However, the spread of various conspiracies also has its other party, when approximately 13 percent of the public challenges the fact of the very assassination,” added. At the same time, the assassination is also abusing for the criminalization of the opposition or part of it. “Although only verbal, it is a potentially dangerous rhetoric,” He thinks a political scientist.
According to Marušiak, the Prime Minister closed more. “His communication with the media has only worsened and, on the contrary, even more accentuates the difference between related and critical media,” noted. It considers the strengthening of the constitutional official protection as well as stricter prosecution of hateful speeches in public space, including online space, is logical. “However, it is questionable to what extent it applies in practice,” reminded.
However, according to him, the approval of the life annuity for the Prime Minister and the President of Parliament, which was taken under the Lex assassination measures, do not have a direct connection with the assassination. It considers the limitation of the right to gathering to be questionable. “On the one hand of the Assembly before the residences of politicians, they are truly a non -standard form of protest and represent an interference with their privacy and privacy of their family members. We have seen it in the previous parliamentary term. Another thing is protests in front of the government and the president that should not be limited in this way,” He stressed Marušiak.
It was surprising how the topic of the assassination of public discourse has disappeared and much more are represented by other topics, such as issues of relations with the EU and Russia or financial consolidation. The premiere was seriously shot after the government meeting in Handlova last year 15 May striker Juraj Cintula. He faces a life sentence. The trial should be started in July.
