- Peter Pellegrini drew attention to the divisive influence of politics in society.
- According to the president, politics should not interfere with people’s personal relationships.
- Politicians should work to improve lives instead of stirring up emotions.
- He proposed measures to protect minors from harmful content on social networks.
Politics has become a divisive element and has affected families, friendly relationships or the atmosphere at the workplace. He pointed this out in his New Year’s address SR president Peter Pellegrini. According to him, politicians from both camps, instead of trying to unite and calm society, often incite people to even more tense and negative emotions.
“Politicians from both camps feel this growing pressure well, and instead of trying to unite and calm society, they incite people to even more tense and negative emotions. They do not hesitate to insult not only their political rivals, but even their voters – and this is absolutely unacceptable in a democracy.” said Pellegrini.
According to him, politics does not deserve to grow into people’s lives in such dimensions. “Politics does not deserve to be the dominant category of our lives. It does not deserve to destroy our relationships in families, friendships or at the workplace. And politicians do not deserve to be loved or hated. They should do their job, the content of which must first of all be improving people’s lives, and not political circuses or battles in parliament.” said the president.
The head of state emphasized that hateful and divisive politics must not lead people to look down and look down on everyone who has a different opinion or is different. “Therefore, we will calmly reject politics that lead to arrogance and contempt for others. We will reject social networks wherever they spread hatred,” he added. He believes that the government will take concrete steps in the implementation of his proposal to protect children and adolescents much more significantly “against evil” from social networks, even at the cost of limiting access to these networks to a certain age of their lives.
