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AKO Poll: Voice Would Have Won Election in August, Followed by SaS and Smer

AKO Poll: Voice Would Have Won Election in August, Followed by SaS and Smer

Bratislava, August 18 (TASR) – Had a general election taken place in August 2021, it would have been won by ex-premier Peter Pellegrini’s Voice-SD party on 19.5 percent of the votes, ahead of the junior governing Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) party on 14.7 percent and the opposition Smer-SD

Survey: Over 66 Percent of People Support Vaccination, One in Five Reject It

Survey: Over 66 Percent of People Support Vaccination, One in Five Reject It

Bratislava, August 16 (TASR) – Over 66 percent of Slovaks are in favour of vaccination, with 11 percent considering it and one in five people rejecting inoculation against COVID-19, according to an AKO poll on vaccination and anti-pandemic measures ordered by the co-governing Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) party and presented by

Premier: Kaliste Shows that Living in Peace Is Not Matter of Course

Premier: Kaliste Shows that Living in Peace Is Not Matter of Course

Banska Bystrica, August 14 (TASR) – The burnt down village of Kaliste (Banska Bystrica region) shows that living in peace is not a matter of course, Prime Minister Eduard Heger (OLaNO) said on Saturday in a speech he delivered at an event called Meeting of Generations in Kaliste. “This is a

OLaNO: Police Findings of Criminal Group Under Smer-SD Gov'ts Not Surprising

OLaNO: Police Findings of Criminal Group Under Smer-SD Gov'ts Not Surprising

Bratislava, August 13 (TASR) – The latest findings that an organised criminal group was supposedly operating in 2015-20 at the Interior Ministry under the tenures of ex-ministers Robert Kalinak (2012-18) and Denisa Sakova (2018-20) are “disgusting and disconcerting, but far from surprising”, coalition’s OLaNO party told TASR on Friday. The

Sakova: I'm Shocked to Learn a Criminal Group Operated at My Ministry

Sakova: I'm Shocked to Learn a Criminal Group Operated at My Ministry

Bratislava, August 13 (TASR) – Ex-interior minister and MP Denisa Sakova (independent) is shocked by the police findings that an organised criminal group operated at the Interior Ministry during her tenure in 2018-20, TASR learnt on Friday. Sakova is also surprised that cooperating defendant Peter “Tiger” T. [name abbreviated due to

Half of Adult Slovak Population Now Vaccinated, President Thanks Them

Half of Adult Slovak Population Now Vaccinated, President Thanks Them

Bratislava, August 12 (TASR) – President Zuzana Caputova on Thursday thanked the people who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 in reaction to information published by the Health Ministry earlier in the day that 50 percent of the adult Slovak population, or over 2.3 million people, have now been inoculated with

Police Chief Stood Up Again for Police in Their Interventions in Protests

Police Chief Stood Up Again for Police in Their Interventions in Protests

Bratislava, August 11 (TASR) – Police Corps President Peter Kovarik has once again defended police officers and their interventions in protests in front of the parliament building and in front of the Presidential Palace in Bratislava, TASR learnt on Wednesday. According to Kovarik, the situation at the protest in front of