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Peter Pellegrini (Hlas-Smer)
 
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Ivan Korčok (SaS-PS-KDH)
 
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Štefan Harabin (far-right)
 
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Patrik Dubovský (conservative)
 
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Igor Matovič (Slovensko)
 
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Andrej Danko (SNS)
 
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Marian Kotleba (ĽSNS)
 
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Ján Kubiš (independent)
 
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« Reply #125 on: October 20, 2020, 04:40:04 PM »

So what’s the deal on the rejected abortion bill? Who else other than Olano voted for it (or not) and what does this signify? Will they make it in the next 6 months?
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« Reply #126 on: October 21, 2020, 10:30:06 AM »

So what’s the deal on the rejected abortion bill? Who else other than Olano voted for it (or not) and what does this signify? Will they make it in the next 6 months?

OĽaNO, Sme rodina and ĽSNS voted mostly for, Hlas abstained and others voted mostly against. No idea what happens next; everyone is running around like headless chickens and who knows what things will be like.
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« Reply #127 on: October 21, 2020, 11:57:09 AM »

Hlas abstained and Smer voted against?
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« Reply #128 on: October 21, 2020, 12:19:17 PM »

Hlas abstained and Smer voted against?

It was a conscience vote; Smer voted 15 against, 4 for, 8 abstain/absent, but all Hlas people (12 if I'm counting correctly) abstained - I'm guessing they're trying to make themselves the main alternative to government so they've gone all moderate hero (they literally talked about "sowing needless division in society"). Smer does have many socons, after all their voters were/are mostly old, rural and poor, but hardcore catholics usually vote for KDH, SNS and OĽaNO (or so I'm guessing from results in very religious places like Námestovo).
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« Reply #129 on: October 27, 2020, 07:45:34 PM »

So, on Saturday, Boris Kollár (who is, by the way, also the Speaker of National Council) had a rather serious car accident while being driven in his official limo. He's currently in hospital after a spine operation, but he should be okay. What's more interesting is that there was one other passenger in the car - a Playboy model and a finalist in Miss Slovakia. She later stated that Kollár was giving her a favor by taking her to a pharmacy to buy medication for her tetany.

Hmmm.

Reminds me of when a couple of year ago, Ján Richter, the then-Minister of Labour, had a car accident when, as he said, he was going to his granddaughter's baptism. The slight problem with that excuse was that in his suit pockets they found condoms, Viagra and thousands of euros in cash Tongue
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« Reply #130 on: October 27, 2020, 07:58:17 PM »

So I’m guessing even now Hlas is doing identity building, sooo....what are they doing? It just seems that basing it as a personality cult around Pellegrini isn’t very healthy for the party long term with Smer still standing.
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« Reply #131 on: October 28, 2020, 04:13:38 AM »

So I’m guessing even now Hlas is doing identity building, sooo....what are they doing? It just seems that basing it as a personality cult around Pellegrini isn’t very healthy for the party long term with Smer still standing.

Their schtick isn't very imaginative - "we're Smer but nicer, also our leader is this charismatic young man instead of an angry corrupt dude who's been in the news every day for the last twenty years". They don't have an official platform (they might not even bother with one until just before the next election, who knows), but Pelle is saying things like we want to be a voice for workers and all who need help, Slovakia needs a strong social democracy, the government is chaotic and bad etc.

If anything, being a personality cult could help the party - Pellegrini is, IIRC, tied with the President for the most popular politician in the country, while basically everyone who isn't still supporting Smer after the breakup (so like 8-12% of voters) hates Fico. Besides, parties in Slovakia tend to be quite personalistic - the only relevant parties that lasted for more than one election and have had more than one leader are SDKÚ, KDH, SDĽ, SMK and SNS - with the exception of SDKÚ, none could ever get much more than 10% and certainly were never in contention for premiership. 
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« Reply #132 on: November 06, 2020, 09:19:41 AM »

Over the past year or so, there were many, many prosecutions of crooked justice people, among others several high-ranking judges (corruption), a high-ranking prosecutor (corruption) and another batch of like a dozen judges (the C word again). So that's clearly a good thing but I thought our justice system is reaching its limits of self-cleaning and it can't possibly do much more. Well...

During a mega-raid yesterday, the following people were arrested and indicted for corruption, abuse of official competences and creation of a criminal group:
- František Böhm, a former member of Slovak Information Service (the national intelligence agency)
- Dušan Kováčik, a long-time boss of Office of the Special Prosecutor
- Ľudovít Makó, former boss of Criminal Office of Financial Administration
- Bernard Slobodník, a former chief of National Unit of Financial Police
- Róbert Krajmer, former director of National Anticorruption Unit
- Peter Hraško, the former chief of National Criminal Agency
- Tibor Gašpar, the former Police President

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« Reply #133 on: November 06, 2020, 12:52:50 PM »

A tl;dr of the criminal conspiracy the above were part of (the parts that we know about so far, that is; there will probably be much more to it):

- Norbert Bödör and his family own several businesses*, the largest of them being Bonul, Slovakia's largest private security contractor.
- Bonul was awarded many lucrative contracts under Smer governments and Bödör is personally close to Robert Fico.
- According to information of witnesses, mostly members of police and judiciary plus several pentiti, the police, anti-corruption institutions and a number of prosecutors and judges were controlled by the Bödörs with the help of Tibor Gašpar and his accomplices.
- Among other things, Bödör gave Bernard Slobodník a €20k bribe to protect the millionaire Juraj Široký from investigation into his dubious business practices.
- Before the 2016 election, Bödör's people spied on Matovič and his then-political ally Daniel Lipšic and might have broken into Matovič's home.
- All of the people mentioned in the previous post were appointed by Fico's governments.

Fico personally doesn't seem to be in danger of prosecution yet, but from his reaction to these events he seems to be shaking in his boots.

* My cousin's wedding reception took place in a Bödör-owned hotel, so I probably share some of the guilt Tongue

Please send help, I watched Il Divo last week and now I feel like I'm stuck inside that movie.

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« Reply #134 on: November 20, 2020, 05:31:16 PM »

Vladimír Pčolinský, the new director of SIS (our equivalent of CIA, basically) gave a TV interview that mostly consisted of a long rant about Fico and his interior minister Kaliňák and accused them of gutting the agency so that they wouldn't be investigated. He had his reasons, though - apparently SIS was so disastrously underfunded and undermanned that they didn't even know that like half of top cats in Slovak police and judiciary are pals with and/or controlled by mafia. Oh, and apparently some unspecified "Chinese subjects" paid for prostitutes for several MPs. Not sure if that's the kind of thing you should just blurt out on live TV if you're the director of secret service, but whatever.

Also, Matovič is considering another nationwide testing, brags about how Tony Blair randomly called him and spent the last two weeks arguing with Sulík over Facebook about... I don't even know or care anymore.

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« Reply #135 on: November 27, 2020, 09:57:10 AM »

So, on Saturday, Boris Kollár (who is, by the way, also the Speaker of National Council) had a rather serious car accident while being driven in his official limo. He's currently in hospital after a spine operation, but he should be okay. What's more interesting is that there was one other passenger in the car - a Playboy model and a finalist in Miss Slovakia. She later stated that Kollár was giving her a favor by taking her to a pharmacy to buy medication for her tetany.

Hmmm.

Reminds me of when a couple of year ago, Ján Richter, the then-Minister of Labour, had a car accident when, as he said, he was going to his granddaughter's baptism. The slight problem with that excuse was that in his suit pockets they found condoms, Viagra and thousands of euros in cash Tongue

Oh, but the story doesn't end there! During his stay in hospital, Kollár received multiple female, er, visitors who stayed overnight. They kept pestering the staff and asking for tea, which ended with one of them getting into a shouting match with a nurse who told her that her job is taking care of patients, not making tea for Speaker's mistress(es). The Karen then complained to the hospital director, who threatened the nurses with not paying them their bonuses, so the staff decided to complain to media. When the President found out about this, she called the director and got him to promise to pay the bonuses. Meanwhile, Kollár said that if his presence bothers someone, he'll ask the doctors to discharge him and go home. Tears of joy
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« Reply #136 on: November 27, 2020, 10:15:43 AM »

So, on Saturday, Boris Kollár (who is, by the way, also the Speaker of National Council) had a rather serious car accident while being driven in his official limo. He's currently in hospital after a spine operation, but he should be okay. What's more interesting is that there was one other passenger in the car - a Playboy model and a finalist in Miss Slovakia. She later stated that Kollár was giving her a favor by taking her to a pharmacy to buy medication for her tetany.

Hmmm.

Reminds me of when a couple of year ago, Ján Richter, the then-Minister of Labour, had a car accident when, as he said, he was going to his granddaughter's baptism. The slight problem with that excuse was that in his suit pockets they found condoms, Viagra and thousands of euros in cash Tongue

Oh, but the story doesn't end there! During his stay in hospital, Dollar received multiple female, er, visitors who stayed overnight. They kept pestering the staff and asking for tea, which ended with one of them getting into a shouting match with a nurse who told her that her job is taking care of patients, not making tea for Speaker's mistress(es). The Karen then complained to the hospital director, who threatened the nurses with not paying them their bonuses, so the staff decided to complain to media. When the President found out about this, she called the director and got him to promise to pay the bonuses. Meanwhile, Kollár said that if his presence bothers someone, he'll ask the doctors to discharge him and go home. Tears of joy
Amazing story. And what a piece of work this guy is. 11 children from 10 different women? Wow. Plus, hilarious he's leader of a rightwing party that defends family values. Tears of joy Tears of joy
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« Reply #137 on: November 27, 2020, 12:07:11 PM »

So, on Saturday, Boris Kollár (who is, by the way, also the Speaker of National Council) had a rather serious car accident while being driven in his official limo. He's currently in hospital after a spine operation, but he should be okay. What's more interesting is that there was one other passenger in the car - a Playboy model and a finalist in Miss Slovakia. She later stated that Kollár was giving her a favor by taking her to a pharmacy to buy medication for her tetany.

Hmmm.

Reminds me of when a couple of year ago, Ján Richter, the then-Minister of Labour, had a car accident when, as he said, he was going to his granddaughter's baptism. The slight problem with that excuse was that in his suit pockets they found condoms, Viagra and thousands of euros in cash Tongue

Oh, but the story doesn't end there! During his stay in hospital, Dollar received multiple female, er, visitors who stayed overnight. They kept pestering the staff and asking for tea, which ended with one of them getting into a shouting match with a nurse who told her that her job is taking care of patients, not making tea for Speaker's mistress(es). The Karen then complained to the hospital director, who threatened the nurses with not paying them their bonuses, so the staff decided to complain to media. When the President found out about this, she called the director and got him to promise to pay the bonuses. Meanwhile, Kollár said that if his presence bothers someone, he'll ask the doctors to discharge him and go home. Tears of joy
Amazing story. And what a piece of work this guy is. 11 children from 10 different women? Wow. Plus, hilarious he's leader of a rightwing party that defends family values. Tears of joy Tears of joy

Daily reminder that he also copied his university thesis from internet and back in the 90s smuggled heroin from Austria. Tears of joy

The funny thing is that he's not as much of a moron as you'd expect - when talking about politics he actually manages to sound like, well, a politician and not like Donald Trump. I'd go as far as to call him a (very relative of course) voice of reason in this disaster of a government...
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« Reply #138 on: November 27, 2020, 12:07:23 PM »

...because the person leading it is even worse.

Reposting this here for why I fully expect OĽaNO to fall to third place in the next poll or two and why there are increasingly rumours of an early election sometime next year. It's not just because of this - I had high hopes of this government but I'm astonished at how quickly they managed to disappoint me. Matovič himself is the biggest problem - it's pretty clear that he can't run a whelk stall and the only thing that kept him from somehow managing to burn down the entire country were his ministers and his delusions being momentarily aligned with reality. There is also a theory (completely believable tbh given his childishness) that he discovered that he doesn't like being PM and wants to collapse the coalition, but lay the blame on someone else.

Rant over.   

Until now, Slovakia's PM Igor Matovič has been handling the situation pretty well. Generally low infection rates, reasonably strict measures and even a world first - successful mass testing of the whole population. I don't know what happened in the last month or so, but he seems to have become completely unhinged.

The GALAXY BRAIN of his came up with an idea. On December 7, we'll reopen schools, but with the following measures: before entering, children will gargle salt water (?!) and spit in a bucket (?!!) which will then be sealed and sent for testing. If the result is positive, all children who spat in the bucket (and their parents and siblings) will have to get tested and they will only be allowed to enter school premises with a negative result. The testing will be conducted by teachers (?!?!) because there isn't enough qualified personnel (yet somehow there was enough for the mass testing?).

The reaction from literally everyone (scared children, shocked parents, teachers on the brink of a heart attack, headteachers desperate after being screamed at by parents who threaten to sue them, public health experts, even people in his own cabinet, basically anyone with a functioning brain) was thus. Today, Matovič decided to do a 180° for the xth time in the past few weeks and his new plan is... f**k knows.

Christ alive, what a f****** cretin. Small wonder that he has a like -35 approval rating (and that was before this disaster!).
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« Reply #139 on: November 27, 2020, 12:27:03 PM »

...because the person leading it is even worse.

Reposting this here for why I fully expect OĽaNO to fall to third place in the next poll or two and why there are increasingly rumours of an early election sometime next year. It's not just because of this - I had high hopes of this government but I'm astonished at how quickly they managed to disappoint me. Matovič himself is the biggest problem - it's pretty clear that he can't run a whelk stall and the only thing that kept him from somehow managing to burn down the entire country were his ministers and his delusions being momentarily aligned with reality. There is also a theory (completely believable tbh given his childishness) that he discovered that he doesn't like being PM and wants to collapse the coalition, but lay the blame on someone else.

Rant over.   

Until now, Slovakia's PM Igor Matovič has been handling the situation pretty well. Generally low infection rates, reasonably strict measures and even a world first - successful mass testing of the whole population. I don't know what happened in the last month or so, but he seems to have become completely unhinged.

The GALAXY BRAIN of his came up with an idea. On December 7, we'll reopen schools, but with the following measures: before entering, children will gargle salt water (?!) and spit in a bucket (?!!) which will then be sealed and sent for testing. If the result is positive, all children who spat in the bucket (and their parents and siblings) will have to get tested and they will only be allowed to enter school premises with a negative result. The testing will be conducted by teachers (?!?!) because there isn't enough qualified personnel (yet somehow there was enough for the mass testing?).

The reaction from literally everyone (scared children, shocked parents, teachers on the brink of a heart attack, headteachers desperate after being screamed at by parents who threaten to sue them, public health experts, even people in his own cabinet, basically anyone with a functioning brain) was thus. Today, Matovič decided to do a 180° for the xth time in the past few weeks and his new plan is... f**k knows.

Christ alive, what a f****** cretin. Small wonder that he has a like -35 approval rating (and that was before this disaster!).

What?? Salt water?? Dear God, that isn't just stupid it's also... what the hell were you thinking? I thought I had my share today of stupid proposals about Covid from my government, but Slovakia, you win.

If there's a snap election in 2021, Pellegrini will back in, right? Or is his party still to be officialized?
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« Reply #140 on: November 27, 2020, 01:47:33 PM »

...because the person leading it is even worse.

Reposting this here for why I fully expect OĽaNO to fall to third place in the next poll or two and why there are increasingly rumours of an early election sometime next year. It's not just because of this - I had high hopes of this government but I'm astonished at how quickly they managed to disappoint me. Matovič himself is the biggest problem - it's pretty clear that he can't run a whelk stall and the only thing that kept him from somehow managing to burn down the entire country were his ministers and his delusions being momentarily aligned with reality. There is also a theory (completely believable tbh given his childishness) that he discovered that he doesn't like being PM and wants to collapse the coalition, but lay the blame on someone else.

Rant over.   

Until now, Slovakia's PM Igor Matovič has been handling the situation pretty well. Generally low infection rates, reasonably strict measures and even a world first - successful mass testing of the whole population. I don't know what happened in the last month or so, but he seems to have become completely unhinged.

The GALAXY BRAIN of his came up with an idea. On December 7, we'll reopen schools, but with the following measures: before entering, children will gargle salt water (?!) and spit in a bucket (?!!) which will then be sealed and sent for testing. If the result is positive, all children who spat in the bucket (and their parents and siblings) will have to get tested and they will only be allowed to enter school premises with a negative result. The testing will be conducted by teachers (?!?!) because there isn't enough qualified personnel (yet somehow there was enough for the mass testing?).

The reaction from literally everyone (scared children, shocked parents, teachers on the brink of a heart attack, headteachers desperate after being screamed at by parents who threaten to sue them, public health experts, even people in his own cabinet, basically anyone with a functioning brain) was thus. Today, Matovič decided to do a 180° for the xth time in the past few weeks and his new plan is... f**k knows.

Christ alive, what a f****** cretin. Small wonder that he has a like -35 approval rating (and that was before this disaster!).

What?? Salt water?? Dear God, that isn't just stupid it's also... what the hell were you thinking? I thought I had my share today of stupid proposals about Covid from my government, but Slovakia, you win.

If there's a snap election in 2021, Pellegrini will back in, right? Or is his party still to be officialized?

Yeah, my jaw dropped when I heard that. I mean, it's not just that it's a criminally stupid proposal, it's that it comes from a government that used to be genuinely good at this. Currently it looks like Matovič has gone into background and let the relatively competent Minister of Education handle it.

I talked about how Matovič really really really sucks at PR, but last week was simply disastrous. He comes off as a puppetmaster who thinks that he can control everyone and the whole country is some giant chessboard, changes his mind literally every day (and on major measures, not just some details!) and I think there's a serious risk of pushing people past the brink - in fact, it's already happening. Some mayors have already announced that they will refuse to participate in a possible second nationwide testing because they've run out of people and money, the reason why there were apparently not enough people to do the testing in schools is that medics are refusing to volunteer and if something similar to Matovič's original school plan goes forward, I expect parents to start ignoring it en masse and just not send children to school - that is if teachers don't go on strike first. I hate getting into pathos, but for the good of this country I hope that a sane solution will be found in the end, because if not... well, f***.

I need to stress it's just speculation, but I still think there are reasons why a snap election is more likely than not. Matovič and SaS leader Sulík hate each other back from the days when Matovič and his two colleagues got into parliament from literally last three places (148, 149, 150) on SaS list and then quit the caucus after some kind of personal spat. Sulík also notably collapsed the Radičová government back in 2012, of which he was a part of and which was a similarly unworkable everyone-against-Smer alliance. Also, SaS is gaining in the polls, perhaps thanks to being seen as adults in the room; Sulík is a nerdy economist, normally not the best person to lead a party but I can see why it would make some people like him now.

Pellegrini's party does officially exist, leads the polls (with like 20%, but still) and he's popular enough that I can see him gain a lot and win a snap election, with SaS as the seond party. OĽaNO is crashing in the polls (show me a country where the PM's party polls 15%...) and if Matovič mishandles his government's possible collapse (almost guaranteed), they could go even lower.

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Okay, so now it's Rant Over. I hope.
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« Reply #141 on: November 27, 2020, 02:41:53 PM »

OĽaNO is crashing in the polls (show me a country where the PM's party polls 15%...) and if Matovič mishandles his government's possible collapse (almost guaranteed), they could go even lower.
Slovakia in 2011/12.
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« Reply #142 on: November 27, 2020, 05:53:55 PM »

OĽaNO is crashing in the polls (show me a country where the PM's party polls 15%...) and if Matovič mishandles his government's possible collapse (almost guaranteed), they could go even lower.
Slovakia in 2011/12.

Haha, good point. Cheesy

Even better, after Radičová lost the confidence vote and turned into a lame duck, her party hovered barely above the threshold - a record I'd love to see Matovič break, but I don't think it's going to happen. :/
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« Reply #143 on: November 27, 2020, 05:59:48 PM »

Communist parties might be banned soon...
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« Reply #144 on: November 27, 2020, 06:39:26 PM »

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« Reply #145 on: December 01, 2020, 01:38:28 PM »

[...] Gorila case - release of transcripts of conversations about all kinds of shady financial dealings that put the final nail in the coffin of Iveta Radičová's 2010-2012 government. After that, Gorila was generally thought to be dead - until yesterday, when editors' offices of major Slovak media received an anonymous email with a link to the full Gorila tapes.

The main villain in this story is the second richest person in the country, Jaroslav Haščák - entrepreneur, financier and the main partner in Penta Investments Group, a conglomerate that owns, among other things, several privatized public hospitals and a health insurance company. They are widely disliked for their extremely close relationship to Smer in general and Fico in particular. The whole affair is a horribly complicated clusterfck, but the gist of the tapes is that Haščák tried to influence various politicians, including Robert Fico, to push policies favorable to Penta & friends, in exchange for donations to their parties.

Slovakia is having an amazing day today Purple heart because Haščák isn't:



It also turns out that Haščák owned a copy of the Gorila tapes that he bought from Ľubomír Arpáš, the former chief of SIS counterintelligence unit. Arpᚠwas already arrested on Tuesday, along with a prominent lawyer (in)famous for defending the worst of 90s mafia bosses and who was also, you'll never guess what, a member of SIS (and when police raided his home last year, they found this).
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« Reply #146 on: December 03, 2020, 01:33:51 PM »

lmao, half of this thread is gonna be just lists of high-ranking officials busted for corruption

National Criminal Agency's Mills of God and Purgatory anti-corruption operations are followed by one with an even cooler name: Judas. Today, yet another former Police President was arrested, along with seven other people. According to testimonies of pentiti caught in previous operations, Milan Lučanský received €30k/month for two years from a businessman in return for axing investigations into his connections with mafia. Other people indicted in this case include a former chief of SIS counterintelligence (not Arpáš, this is another one; the list does, however, include Arpáš's wife, also a former secret agent) and a former SIS deputy director.

Also, according to other testimonies, the former Minister of Economy, now Hlas MP Peter Žiga convinced Norbert Bödör to pay €50k to police officials to stop an investigation into Žiga's nephew.
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« Reply #147 on: December 07, 2020, 06:00:23 PM »

Interrogations of people who were arrested this week (and before) are going full speed ahead and a new batch transcripts is released basically every day, so some very interesting stuff has surfaced this week.

Enter Robert Kaliňák; co-founder of Smer, Minister of Interior for two terms totalling ten years*, Fico's right hand, his successor as PM had he won the 2014 presidential election and Keanu's lost twin brother.

According to statements of Ľudovít Makóx, Norbert Bödör's scheme had three goals: keeping Smer in power, staffing positions in security forces with loyalists and personal financial gains - and he wasn't going to let anything stop him. In summer of 2015, Kaliňák, Bödör and other high-ranking police officers and investigators met at the Ministry of Interior in response to Matovič looking like an increasingly dangerous threat in the upcoming election. On this meeting, Bödör presented a plan for gathering kompromat on Matovič that included stalking him and bugging his phone. And it doesn't stop there: in 2017, when Fico's arch-nemesis, President Andrej Kiska, considered founding a political party, a similar meeting took place, again with a plan to gather dirt on Smer's political enemies. Kaliňák also regularly visited Bödör's wine cellar (built thanks to a generous endowment of EU funds, allocated by Smer ministers), where the two discussed their future plans.

* Kali had his fair share of scandals during his time as Minister; the two most notable ones are scuttling a hate crime investigation (a part of a larger wave of Slovak-Hungarian bickering) and then this sh*t.

x A former director of Criminal Office of Financial Administration; Financial Administration (Finančná správa) is the body responsible for collecting taxes and customs, so Makó was where the buck stopped wrt investigations of tax fraud. And he was controlled by mafia. Yeah :/
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« Reply #148 on: December 11, 2020, 02:27:03 PM »
« Edited: December 11, 2020, 03:01:43 PM by Estrella »

This government doesn't seem to be on the verge of collapse yet... having said that, if I were Prime Minister and the leader of the second largest party in my coalition gave a newspaper interview where he trashed all the idiotic policies of his own cabinet and said they're my fault, tacitly admitted that ski resorts are staying open because another coalition partner owns a load of them, said that I "say things despite knowning they are false" and called me "an extremely egocentric and extremely vengeful person"... I'd be starting to get worried.

But then I'm not Matovič and Sulík isn't saying anything about me, so I don't have to worry about that.

edit: I actually read the whole thing and Sulík said that he's staying in government anyway because - and this is both peak Matovič and peak Sulík - he received so many insults from Matovič that he "doesn't care about a couple more" sksjskjdsksjhdsj
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« Reply #149 on: December 11, 2020, 07:15:27 PM »

This government doesn't seem to be on the verge of collapse yet... having said that, if I were Prime Minister and the leader of the second largest party in my coalition gave a newspaper interview where he trashed all the idiotic policies of his own cabinet and said they're my fault, tacitly admitted that ski resorts are staying open because another coalition partner owns a load of them, said that I "say things despite knowning they are false" and called me "an extremely egocentric and extremely vengeful person"... I'd be starting to get worried.
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