RIEŠENIE V KRAJNEJ NÚDZIChoroba ma na nejaký čas odstavila od písania pravidelný…

Choroba ma na nejaký čas odstavila od písania pravidelných ranných príspevkov každý boží deň, preto dnes namiesto toho ponúkam v núdzi môj otvorený list komisárovi Reyndersovi z 12. 12. 2023 tak, ako som ho v angličtine napísal a poslal s priateľmi vedeniu EK a EP v Bruseli a zahraničným zastupiteľským úradom v Bratislave. Ponúkam ho tu v angličtine, ale na konci je link naň vo forme petície v slovenskom jazyku. Petíciu podpísalo 6 488 občanov…. Je to veľa, je to málo? Posúďte sami. Najmä s ohľadom na fakt, že o petícii som 15.12. 2023 informoval listom priamo predsedu NR SR, vedenie Úradu vlády SR a premiéra…..

RE: SLOVAK CITIZENS WRITE TO BRUSSELS AND THE HEAD OF MISSION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN SLOVAKIA

Excellency,

As you will know, the three and a half years during which as many as three consecutive governments took turn to run Slovakia in the wake of the 2020 parliamentary elections ended recently when a new governing coalition was formed after the September 30th parliamentary election. A huge sigh of relief could be heard across tormented Slovakia as the results started pouring in from the polling stations, bringing the disgruntled electorate much needed new hope and promising a return to normalcy after the political bedlam, mismanagement of the nation’s economy and total chaos that eventually turned the country, prosperous and functioning reasonably well just 1,300 days before, upside down.

Europe’s star performer just four years back, after the February 2020 elections Slovakia started to see dramatic worsening of all key parameters and indicators that put the country among the EU frontrunners as recently as by the end of the 21st century’s second decade. Nothing, not even the reshuffling of cabinet members and prime ministers seemed to work and the situation just continued to go from bad to worse at a breathtaking rate. Eventually, the ruling coalition of Eduard Heger and Igor Matovic started disintegrating, only to collapse and crash-land amidst fierce infighting, ruthless back-and-forth mud slinging, political chaos and economic recession that resulted in Slovakia’s inevitable decline among EU’s least successful performers.

Worse still, it was not just the economy, the political culture, the inflation, the living standard and the alarming social situation that deteriorated beyond recognition. Hand in hand with overall instability and chaos also the rule of law started receiving one serious blow after another when police measures were taken and attempts were being made on a daily basis to criminalize the opposition and detain and charge its representatives with all sorts of made up crimes. This was usually done by the controversial National Crime Agency (NAKA) and its preferred method of forcing their way into the front yards and homes of alleged suspects of crimes to detain them for unspecified periods of time, often without the detained persons even knowing what they were being charged with. As a rule, local media were always tipped off to be on the site in the small hours, too, to take pictures and report the police raids and the detaining in vivid detail. This has led to multiple cases of violations of human rights, confirmed by twenty-six rulings by the nation’s Constitutional court and four rulings by the European Court of Human Rights (in the period of 2020-2021 alone). Several detained people died while in custody under circumstances which remain to be thoroughly investigated. All this, and much more, did not go unnoticed by the nation’s Slovak Information Service (SIS) which issued a highly concerning classified report of foul police play in numerous instances and of murky police practices in striving to prosecute and sentence people purported to be in any way associated with the opposition. One would have to be deaf, blind and unconscious not to see that the aim had been to maim the opposition and, preferably, destroy and get rid of it altogether in the end, thus transforming the nation’s political landscape into a pitiful semi-desert.