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Shaping the Debate: How to Secure Our Democracies from Malign Interference
10 December 2024
Wasting no time, Robert Fico’s new government in Bratislava has made the first moves to retake nearly every facet of government.
Revenge, revision, restoration – these three words can be used to describe the modus operandi of the new Slovak government headed by Robert Fico at the beginning of its tenure.
Formed after the September 2023 elections, the ruling coalition Smer-SD – Hlas-SD – SNS took power in a way that is not usual in established democracies as it is not only a change of political and socio-economic priorities in the administration of the state after one government was replaced by another. The measures of the new Fico government create the possibility of systemic changes in the field of political democracy, rule of law, equality of citizens and foreign and defence-security policy.