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Slovak opposition to continue anti-government protests

Xinhua, June 22, 2016 Adjust font size:

The Slovak opposition will continue to stage anti-government protests for the alleged link between Interior Minister Robert Kalinak with a businessman suspected of huge tax fraud, the TASR news agency reported Tuesday.

"It's unacceptable for a decent country to have an interior minister involved in business with a person suspected of huge tax fraud and even defending him in his statements," former Social Affairs Minister Ludovit Kanik, whose Democratic Party organized the protests, said Tuesday.

"It's unacceptable that the prime minister of a country that will soon take over the (rotating) presidency of the EU Council keeps such a minister in the government," Kanik added.

The next protest is scheduled for Thursday at SNP Square in the capital city of Bratislava.

About 3,000 people rallied in front of Prime Minister Robert Fico's flat in the Bonaparte residential complex in Bratislava on Monday evening.

Fico refused to give in. "The opposition's political meetings are organized on the basis of hate, with the aim of destabilizing Slovakia ahead of the country's taking up the presidency of the EU Council," he said Monday. Endi