"The Slovak opposition is part of the Maidanization of the world," Robert Fico asserted in a loud voice at a press conference, shouting at journalists several times. For example,"You hate Vučič!"
Political scientists ANETA VILÁGI from Comenius University and RADOSLAV ŠTEFANČÍK from the University of Economics watched the Prime Minister's speech in the studio of the ARÉNA program with Jana Krescanko Dibáková. They consider the Prime Minister's speech, which instead of focusing on consolidation measures and rescue stations - one of the government's biggest scandals - focused on the opposition leader's trip to Serbia, to be emotionally unmanageable.
"This speech will be cited in scientific articles by Slovak, Czech or Central European political scientists who analyze conspiracy theories used in communication strategies," describes the speech by Prime Minister Radoslav Štefančík.
According to him, the Prime Minister could not control his own emotions during his numerous attacks on journalists:"When he speaks in this way, he actually only shows that the psychiatrists and psychologists who signed their opinion on Robert Fico were probably right. But I also caught a bright moment there and saw Robert Fico as we knew him some fifteen years ago, there were 5-7 minutes when he answered completely rationally precisely to questions of an economic nature."
According to Aneta Világiová, the viewer can see a dramatic difference in prepared communication and spontaneous reactions, which show reality even with a loss of self-control. And at the same time, the gradually introduced principle that the discussion of measures is replaced by decisions from above:"Here it is as if there is no state that provides a service to citizens, but the government takes it as an exercise of its power within the offices where they are, where they were elected or appointed."
Are the expressions of the representatives of the Direction changing to autocratic? Radoslav Štefančík noticed the changes: "It is absolutely clear to see a shift from the principles of liberal democracy to something that we call defective or illiberal democracy,
where elections, the electoral process exist, but all the other components of liberal democracy such as the protection of freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, protection of the media, protection of minorities - not only the Hungarian one in Slovakia, but also, let's say, the Slovak one in Serbia - are moving for the worse."
Political scientists consider the words of Robert Fico unacceptable, when asked about one of the most scandalous tenders:"We didn't talk about ambulances at all."
They also perceive the lack of information about the consolidation measures, which the government is to discuss on Wednesday, as unacceptable. Aneta Világi points out that, in addition to fear for their own voters, concealing information is associated with subsequent problems for the entire country:"They simply come up with solutions straight away, communicate them and do not discuss them, and, of course, when changes are not preceded by a discussion between experts, mistakes pile up and pile up."
