Former Slovak PM scuffles with ex-interior minister on election marketing campaign path

Sep 13, 2023 at 4:52 PM

ormer Slovak prime minister Igor Matovic and ex-interior minister Robert Kalinak scuffled on Wednesday after Matovic drove up a pick-up truck mounted with the slogan “we will not hand you over to the mafia” to Kalinak’s marketing campaign occasion.

Matovic has lengthy accused SMER-SSD and its leaders, which embody Kalinak and three-time premier Robert Fico, of being corrupt and sees them as his important rivals.

Fico’s social gathering is at the moment main the opinion polls with an agenda to finish navy support to neighbouring Ukraine. Matovic’s social gathering OLANO had been in energy earlier than its coalition fell aside final 12 months and a caretaker cupboard was appointed in May 2023.

On Wednesday, Matovic drove a pick-up truck to Kalinak’s televised SMER-SSD news convention and, by means of mounted loudspeakers, accused him of poor immigration insurance policies when he was inside minister in Fico’s cupboards.

Kalinak went to the automotive and knocked on the motive force’s home windows as the previous PM’s aides scrambled to disconnect the audio system in the back of the truck.

Matovic then opened the door, and Kalinak leaned in and tried to seize the microphone from him, whereas Matovic tried to push him away and swore at him, calling him a mafioso.