Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Slovakia’s capital, Bratislava, to slam the country’s scandal-hit interior minister for allegedly covering up tax frauds.
On Monday, some 2,000 people converged on SNP Square in Bratislava, demanding the resignation of Interior Minister Robert Kalinak, whose entrepreneur Ladislav Basternak faces accusations of fraud.
“For our country, it’s very dangerous that we have a minister of interior who is being investigated due to the frauds of his acquaintance,” the European Parliament deputy, Richard Sulik, said during the protest organized by opposition party OLANO.
Monika Kozelova, a member of the Freedom and Solidarity political party (SaS), also said, “This is our country. Not the country of oligarchs, thieves and liars.”
The demonstrators marched on the Bonaparte complex, owned by Basternak, where Prime Minister Robert Fico and the interior minister have apartments.
“Prime Minister Fico doesn’t abrogate Minister of Interior Kalinak because he knows that, in that case, he would be the next. And the apartment he is staying in,” lawmaker Daniel Lipsic said during the demonstration.
The premier has said he will leave the building if Basternak is proven guilty.
The organizers have vowed more protest rallies if the interior minister refuses to resign.
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