- The PS movement claims that the government plans to limit voting from abroad in parliamentary elections.
- The proposed change is said to replace voting by mail with voting only at embassies.
- The PS asks Prime Minister Fico and the government not to change the election laws.
The opposition movement PS claims that the government is preparing an adjustment in the election from abroad in the elections to the National Council (NR) of the Slovak Republic. He sees this as an effort to restrict the right to vote. It urged Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) and the government not to implement such changes in the law. The chairman of the movement, Michal Šimečka, informed about it at Tuesday’s press conference.
“Information indicates that the government wants to restrict voting from abroad by law – specifically, the law on the conditions for the exercise of the right to vote – in such a way that instead of voting by mail, as is possible today, a Slovak citizen living abroad will have to visit the embassy and vote there.” zoomed in Simečka. In response to a journalist’s question, he stated that the PS has this information from several offices and departments.
The movement behind the supposedly prepared law change sees the government’s clear intention. According to Šimeček, the overwhelming majority of people who voted from abroad in 2023 did not vote for Smer-SD, but for the parties of the current opposition. As he explained, voting was done by mail from abroad 60,000 people from 104 countries, with 61% voting for PS. According to him, a total of 77 percent of these voters voted for opposition parties and six percent voted for Smer-SD.
Šimečka stated that the prime minister will do everything to influence the outcome of the election. He considers bending the laws and limiting the right to vote to be his only option. “I want to call on the prime minister and the government to refute this information that has reached us. To say that they will not change the electoral law a year and a half before the elections,” he appealed. Chairwoman of the parliamentary club PS Zuzana At the same time, Mesterová called on other parties who see such things not to be silent.
