There was chaos again in the Slovak parliament. There were not only verbal but also physical skirmishes between coalition and opposition MPs. The scuffle broke out on Friday during the approval of the amendment to the Criminal Code, which also includes several changes that were added to the proposal that morning as part of the committee’s deliberations.
The Institute of Cooperating Accused – the so-called penitents. Parliament discussed the amendment in abbreviated legislative proceedings. In the plenary, since the beginning of the vote on the amendment, opposition MPs chanted the word “shame” and whistled on their whistles to express their disapproval. The physical fights were caught on camera by opposition MP Igor Matovič. You can find the images at the end of the article.
The situation was so heated that even foreign media noticed it. Famous Slovak faces started commenting on the incident on social networks. Pavel Bruchala, the former presenter of Markíza TV, also spoke. which viewers may remember from the Teleráno morning show. “Slovaks, what happened yesterday and today in our parliament is something unacceptable. I am shocked at where we have come as a nation,” he wrote words full of surprise.
He didn’t take napkins. “We are represented by mentally unstable persons, arrogant, rude and ill-mannered members of parliament who drink alcohol at work, are vulgar, aggressive, and do not respect elementary principles of decent behavior. They physically attack each other and swear at each other like the biggest goons from the pub,” he thinks.
He sharply criticized the current government. “Let’s remember those names, those faces and realize that in more than two years of the government of Smer, Hlas and the SNS, this government and these deputies have done NOTHING for Slovakia. They only care about themselves, their impunity, their pockets. They put us at the absolute bottom in the statistics of EU countries, we are poor, unhappy, unhealthy, aggressive towards others, etc. A single law or amendment to the constitution did not bring any positivity, peace or progress to society“, he continued.
“I don’t want to believe that we are so numb and don’t care at all where we are going, who represents us and who determines our future. Please, let’s learn a lesson and never allow stupid, arrogant, aggressive and corrupt people to get into politics, who for the sake of their own benefit deny any values and will vote, or bring such laws that return us to the Middle Ages, where human dignity is not respected, where people laugh at progress, science and education,” he sent a message to Slovaks.
He then named specific politicians whose behavior he did not like. “The behavior of Mr. Matovič, Proček, but also some individuals in the coalition, including Mr. Danek, Bartek, Glück, Gašpar and others, is horrible. Let’s not make the same mistake in the next election. There cannot be psychopaths and unruly people without an opinion and a backbone in politics“, he declared.
Bruchala continued. “And thanks to those like the representatives of Smer, Hlas and SNS we don’t have highways, functional health care, education, culture, our bridges are falling, riding the train becomes a bad adrenaline experience and young people are fleeing this country and may never return… I don’t want to live in a country where stupidity, arrogance and vulgarity win over reason, decency, perspective and respect,” he added forcefully.
