- The Slovak Ambassador interpreted the Czech Republic a protest against the participation of the Minister in the demonstration.
- The Czech side said it was a private activity.
Slovak Ambassador to the Czech Republic Martin Muránsky on Thursday at the head of the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs interpreted the protest of the Government of the Slovak Republic against the participation of the Czech Interior Minister Víťa Austrian at a demonstration in Bratislava. Daniel Drake, spokesman of the Ministry of Diplomacy, confirmed this TASR. According to his words, the Czech side reiterated that it was a private activity of Austria.
“It was a private activity of the Minister of the Interior. Today, the Slovak Ambassador also explained the Chief Director (European Section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Radek) Pech”Said Drake.
According to the Slovak Minister of Foreign Affairs Juraj Blanar in the internal affairs of the Slovak Republic, the Austrian by participating in the demonstration organized by the Slovak opposition parties organized and Slovakia dragged Slovakia to the culminating campaign in the Czech Republic before the elections to the Chamber of Deputies. Austrian refuses. He repeatedly stated that he participated in the demonstration as a private person and noted that he did not interfere with Slovak political affairs.
After the criticism of the Slovak diplomacy department, the Minister published a video on the X Network with footage as chairman of the YES movement Andrej Babiš, before the elections to the Slovak Parliament in 2023, warned against the election of progressive Slovakia or as former Czech President Miloso Zeman expressed support for Smer-SD and subsequently shots from Bratislava’s protest. He wrote a comment on this video “The criticism of my visit to Bratislava yesterday by some Slovak politicians to answer: there is no support as support ”.
According to Blanar Austrian, he came to the demonstration on the basis of his political motivation, which, in his words, confirms the statement that he wanted to support the “pro -European direction of Slovakia”. In his words, the Slovak opposition parties have been deliberately abused by the Slovak opposition parties against the current government of the Slovak Republic for a long time. “Such action does not contribute to the constructive Slovak-Czech dialogue, but on the contrary, I see it as an abuse within the culminating election campaign in the Czech Republic”Said Blanár on Wednesday on Wednesday.
