Two of Slovakia’s most prominent politicians publicly fought during the election campaign. As TV images and Internet videos showed, former Prime Minister Igor Matovic and former Interior Minister Robert Kalinak shuffled in the street. The police had to intervene.
Matovic, head of the conservative-populist party OLaNO On Wednesday, he drove his car into an open-air press conference of the left-wing populist opposition party Smer-SSD, which was leading in the polls, to disrupt it. Using a loudspeaker in his car, Matovic drowned out the campaign speeches of the Smer politicians with insults.
Migration of current topics
He also claimed that a law passed by the then Smer government in March 2018 was responsible for the thousands of migrants now coming to Slovakia. At the time, Kalinak, as Minister of the Interior, was responsible for the law intended to give refugees temporary residence status. The Smer press conference was dedicated to the topic of migration. Parliamentary elections will take place in Slovakia on September 30.
The two top politicians fought in broad daylight in Bratislava:
The police separated politicians
As seen in the videos, Smer politicians tried to turn off the speaker mounted on the car. Kalinak, who had personally insulted Matovic over the loudspeaker, wanted to take the microphone away from him, which Matovic prevented by kicking him out of the car. After mutual blows, the police separated the politicians.
Matovic surprisingly won the 2020 parliamentary elections as a protest politician after causing a stir with rallies in front of the private homes of Smer politicians. However, he had to give up the office of head of government after a year because he repeatedly got into personal disagreements with his own coalition partners.
Source: Krone
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