In 2005, the popular Slovak singer Katarína Koščová (43) became the winner of the singing competition Slovakia is looking for a Superstar. Katarína is among the public figures who express their disapproval of the current government. In the show, she revealed why she speaks openly about this topic.
He has a clear opinion about it. “I simply cannot imagine being quiet. When injustices are happening, when what is happening here is happening, actually the last two years, two and a half years slowly, I just don’t want it to get worse. I don’t want us to gradually move towards that totality,” the singer declared.
This is nothing new in her life. “I’ve done it before, even before this last government, and I remember that actually the first ones engaged, as if things started to arrive when the referendum for the family was being discussed. It’s been, I don’t even know how many years, ten? I don’t know. Then came the migrant crisis, actually Syria, those were other things where I expressed myself, there were no protests then. The protests only started after the death of Ján and Martina (journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancee Martina Kušnírová, editor’s note). I’ve been actively performing since then,” she revealed.
He regularly attends protests. “I feel that I took part in almost all protests, either as a citizen or as a citizen I was on that stand. We walk around small towns and absolutely anywhere. It is extremely important for me to express this civic attitude in a decent way. But just being there, it’s our country, it’s simply our country and we decide on it“, the singer explained why it is important to her.
He is trying to remind people what we should be focusing on as a society. “At every protest, I try to say, let’s change the narrative, that we don’t look at the government as a government, that’s a very bad word in my opinion, they are our employees. They are our employees and we have to control them, they have to do the best for our country,” she didn’t take the napkins.
He does not approve of the government’s actions. “While they are doing the best for themselves, for their various companions… I can’t imagine sitting at home and not having an opinion about it. I find it absolutely ridiculous when someone says that I should sing and not care about politics. I tell myself that, but I am a citizen of this country, I simply pay taxes here. Why shouldn’t I care? Why shouldn’t I care?” she asked.
According to her, many people do not realize what is involved in politics. “I’m trying to explain to those people that just walking on a sidewalk in the city, driving a car on the road, that’s politics. Because someone had to build that road and they had to build it with our money. Fixing the sidewalk is politics. Repairing or not repairing the hospital is all politics. Simply, whether we have schools or not and in what condition they are, that is politics. So let’s not pretend that it doesn’t concern us in any way, or that it concerns only some selected part of societyKoščová said.
According to her, she does not have to be an expert to be able to comment on the topic. “Am I supposed to be a political scientist in order to be able to express myself whether I like or dislike how they are messing with our country? That the Office for the Protection of Whistleblowers and things like that are going to be abolished? Should I care that the punishments for thieves are reduced and that thieves are released from prison?” she named what was bothering her.
Koščová sees a clear problem. “I want to live in a normal civilized free democratic country and I know very well that we could be much, much better off here if it weren’t for Fico’s governments, which were here, which have been here for years. I name it very clearly. I think it’s fair when, for example, people who come to a concert know how I’m set up, how I’m doing. They can choose not to come there completely freely. So I don’t deal with politics at concerts, but we also have engaged songs, for example” she added.
