The identify of the brand new Slovak president is of Latin origin. Pelegrin is a pilgrim and pelegrini is the second case plural. His biography confirms this. He demonstrated this when he initially referred to as for reconciliation and a joint assembly of politicians along with Zuzana Čaputová, however finally refused to take part. And similar to the chairman of the Slovak Nationwide Get together (SNS), he joined – as all the time, Fico’s Smer.
Forty-eight-year-old Peter Pellegrini is a political pilgrim. He studied finance and has been roaming the political panorama for nearly his whole profession. He began as a parliamentary assistant, he was an MP, all the time for the Course social gathering. Since 2020, he has led the Hlas social gathering, which was imagined to be the voice of the longer term. He spoke of the Course as a aspect of the previous. However after final 12 months’s parliamentary elections, he entered a coalition with Směr and SNS. He successively changed all of the essential posts: He was the chairman of the Nationwide Council, the prime minister and now he’s the president. He was most reproached for studying to stay in a world of secret sponsors, due to which he acquired a big fortune, the duvet of which he couldn’t convincingly clarify. It was speculated that he obtained cash for selling authorized modifications within the expropriation of freeway land, and equally he allegedly received wealthy by introducing a digital money register. In line with the testimony of businessman Michal Suchoba, he allegedly acquired 150,000 euros in money for this. The voters did not thoughts.
Simply as they do not thoughts that not way back he noticed Volodymyr Zelensky as a job mannequin, and on the finish of the presidential marketing campaign he claimed that the voice of Vladimir Putin ought to be listened to, simply as Fico spoke concerning the rampage of Ukrainian nationalists in February. He gained by 6.25 p.c of the vote over the cultivated diplomat Ivan Korčok.
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Preferring the submissive political wanderer over those that assume in a broader context and train folks to stay in uncertainty, which strengthens the operational reminiscence, testifies to the truth that the psychological kinship, political mischief and silly nationalism of the nineteenth century is extra for Slovaks than dignity, the desire to vary and respect for the necessity to broaden the frequent European market. Subsequently, a powerful authoritarian chief who guarantees certainty that he can by no means present is extra acceptable than the rule of regulation and a perception in diligence and morality. There’s nonetheless hope for the independence of the Constitutional Court docket, and the unique concept that it could possibly be that Pellegrini wouldn’t come to phrases along with his submissive function as president disappeared once more quickly after the assassination of Roberto Fico.
Written for CRo Plus.
