Slovaks once again en masse on the streets

Tens of thousands of Slovaks took to the streets in Bratislava and several other cities at home and abroad to demonstrate against the government.

Among other things, banners could read 'Slovakia can not become a Mafia state', with a reference to the murdered investigative journalist Jan Kuciak. The slogans were mainly directed against the Social Democratic Prime Minister Robert Fico: 'We have enough of Fico', 'Wegwezen' and 'Schande'.

Party-less activists had called for this protest. Politicians were not welcome anywhere as a speaker. The organization spoke of the biggest demonstration in the capital since the 'velvet revolution' of 1989, in that time Czechoslovakia.