Slovakia, it's going to change!
According to the Slovak Statistical Office, in the second round of the presidential election held on April 6, the current president of the National Assembly, the chairman of the Social Democratic-Voice party, Peter Pellegrini, defeated former Foreign Minister Ivan Kolčok to win the presidential election.
In the election, Pellegrini was supported by voters in the wider region, such as rural areas and small and medium-sized cities, with 54.12 percent of the vote, while Kolchok won even more support in large cities such as the capital, with 46.87 percent of the vote.
Slovakia has a prime ministership system, but that doesn't mean the president is an empty shelf. In practice, the president still has key powers, including veto laws, appoint government officials, judges, and central bank governors.
And this Pellegrini is no slouch either. The 48-year-old has not only served as a deputy to Prime Minister Fizo's Social Democratic Party, but also became prime minister in 2018 and is now president of the National Assembly and chairman of the Social Democratic-Voice party. It can be said that it has great influence in the Slovak political arena.
His election is bound to cause a political earthquake in Slovakia.
However, for his election, the foreign media showed a strange attitude and complained about him.
In a BBC report, Pellegrini was prominently branded as a "populist" on his head. Throughout the article, we can also find that the BBC makes special use of Spring and Autumn penmanship, saying that Pellegrini's methods are "frightening", spreading hatred and inciting the public.
Hiss~ Why does this sound so familiar?
By the way, isn't this the same way I used to talk about China? How to deal with Slovakia now?
As a good brother of the European Union, how did the BBC turn the spearhead and start dealing with its own people?
To talk about this, we have to start with Pellegrini himself.
Last October, former Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fizo returned to politics and was elected as the current Prime Minister.
In a country that values Western democracies, Robert Fizot is in a league of his own. In 1987 he joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. In 1989, the Velvet Revolution brought down the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. Fizo then joined the Democratic Left Party (SDL), an evolution of the Slovak Communist Party. In 1999, Fizzo left the Democratic Left Party and created a new party, the Social Democratic Party (SMER), which reformed the new Social Democratic Party, took the third path and became a popular opposition politician.
When compared to a group of Western politicians, Fizo showed a very different temperament. The most obvious is that in the position of the Russian-Ukrainian war, Fizo insists on maintaining a "dovish" attitude towards Russia.
You know, before he came to power in October, Slovakia had been one of Ukraine's staunchest allies, supporting Ukraine and Russia to the end. When Fizo came to power, the first thing he did was to stop supplying Kyiv with military supplies for the Slovak Army, he called on the West to stop military support for Ukraine, an immediate ceasefire, and peace talks with Moscow, and said that President Putin was "unfairly demonized" and believed that the admission of Ukraine to NATO would mark the beginning of World War III.
These remarks have made Ukraine's voice in the West less and less, and it has also given Fizo a "pro-Russian" brand.
And now, Pellegrini, as Fizo's former deputy, not only does not fear the accusations of the West, but on the contrary, he is better than the blue, and his dovish attitude towards the Russian-Ukrainian war is even stronger. At the time of the election, he said that peace came first. "The results of the election show that most Slovaks expect a president who puts the national interest first, defends peace and does not involve Slovakia in war," he said. I will be the president who will support the government's efforts to improve the lives of the people. ”
Good guy, one Fizo is enough of a headache, you still have one, this still doesn't make people live?
So these foreign media began to pop up one by one and began to scold Pellegrini and Fizo for being "pro-Russian" and "a nest of snakes and rats". The liberal and pro-Western opposition accuses Pellegrini of conniving with Prime Minister Fizo to carry out a devastating attack on the Slovak criminal justice system, and some have begun a new offensive against Fizo, claiming that he has been the target of multiple corruption scandals, has been carrying out a massive purge of the judiciary and police since October, and is now trying to control public broadcasting.
Although the foreign media spared no effort to attack, can it be proved that Pellegrini and Fizzo were wrong?
Fizo once commented on Slovakia during the election, calling the country "one of the most corrupt countries in the world."
Why?
Because those hypocritical politicians are using war to suck the blood of the people for their own political gain.
After the start of the Russian-Ukrainian war, Slovak liberal figures Kolcok and President Suzanne Chaputova have firmly sided with the United States and Ukraine, supporting Ukraine against Russia.
After thinking about it, I still came up with a way to donate money.
But the money doesn't come from the wind, where does it come from?
This is happening not only in Slovakia, but also in many European countries.
What is the end of the day? It is just to meet the expectations of the United States to contain Russia.
Not only do I spend time and money, but I also have the refugee problem, diplomatic problem, and energy problem that comes with it. People in European countries are increasingly discovering that something is wrong, and they feel as if the whole of Europe is about to be pulled into the quagmire of the Russian-Ukrainian war and cannot get out.
The election of Pellegrini shows that the current government's governing platform, which aims to strengthen Slovakia's sovereignty and defend the interests of the country and the interests of the majority, has the support of the majority of the population.
The people are not stupid, they know what is good and what decisions are right. In their view, peace and development are the essence of life, so Pellegrini's words entered their hearts. And those political elites, who talk about Russia's "dictatorial" image and spread the "Russian threat theory" to intimidate the people, and talk about "freedom and justice", not only will not incite the people, but on the contrary, will only increase the people's distrust of the liberal elite, and the class division will become more and more obvious.
The foreign media said so much, and there is one sentence that they are right. That was the ascension of Pellegrini, which heralded the official change in Slovakia's political direction from pro-Ukrainianism to neutrality. This is the beginning, and it is by no means the end. Its change in stance may have a synergistic effect across NATO, and more and more countries will get tired of this endless war and stop providing aid to Ukraine.
At that point, the people of the West will be freed because there is no refugee problem and no tax deductions, the governments of the West will be freed because there will be no endless fiscal deficits and diplomatic pressure, and the armies of the West will be freed because there will be no senseless deaths.
Who is that bitter?
Who else? Zelensky and Biden, of course.