- The opposition criticizes Slovakia’s decline in the global ranking of perceptions of corruption.
- Slovakia dropped to 61st place out of 182 countries, gaining 48 points.
- Slovakia dropped two places in the ranking year-on-year.
The opposition criticizes the state of corruption in Slovakia and the country’s decline in the global ranking of corruption perceptions (CPI). They point out that if nothing changes, Slovakia will end up in last place. “Today it became clear that Slovakia has fallen 14 places in the ranking of perceptions of corruption since the start of the government of Robert Fico (Smer-SD),” stated Zuzana Števulová, vice president of the PS parliamentary club. He says that the coalition laughs at people’s faces, criticizes that the parliament deals with representative topics.
SaS also does not like the drop in the ranking from 59th to 61st place, which points out that only four EU countries are “worse”, namely Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary. “If nothing changes, we will soon be the last. Slovakia needs a restart,” says SaS on the social network.
In this context, the Slovakia Movement talks about “dragging Slovakia into corruption hell.” “Not only the statistical drop in the ranking of the perception of corruption, but the everyday practice of people convinces that if in the years 2020 to 2023 the hands of investigators were untied, now criminals and corrupt people have free hands,” notes the movement on the social network.
Member of the National Council (NR) of the Slovak Republic Veronika Remišová (Slovakia – For the people) talks about the consequences of the disruption of the rule of law and justice. “Another year-on-year decline in the perception of corruption is naturally a consequence of the current government’s steps to protect criminal groups. The European Prosecutor’s Office says that Slovakia has become a haven for tax fraud, and the Group of States Against Corruption (GRECO) of the Council of Europe is vainly calling on the government to do something about corruption,” Remišová notes, noting that the failure to investigate corruption as a result of government interventions was also recently criticized by Prosecutor General Maroš Žilinka.
Slovakia ranked 61st out of 182 countries in the global ranking of corruption perceptions (CPI). It fell by two places year-on-year. It scored 48 out of 100 possible points. The higher the score, the less corruption there is in the country. The director of Transparency International Slovakia (TIS) Michal Piško informed about it.
The ranking is compiled by the headquarters of Transparency International from indexes of independent institutions mapping one to two years back. “Slovakia was affected by nine indices, year-on-year we worsened in five,” added Piško. Last year, Slovakia ranked 59th out of 180 countries and received 49 points.
