{"id":302351,"date":"2025-01-23T06:25:52","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T06:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=302351"},"modified":"2025-01-24T09:11:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T09:11:18","slug":"eu-states-pm-warns-of-new-maidan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=302351","title":{"rendered":"EU state\u2019s PM warns of new \u2018Maidan\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pravda Hungary \u2013 Jan 22, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Slovakia\u2019s Robert Fico has claimed his political rivals are preparing a Ukraine-style coup with help from abroad<\/p>\n

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has accused the opposition of preparing a \u2018Maidan\u2019 in the country, referring to the violent Western-backed protests in Kiev in 2014 that led to the overthrow of democratically-elected Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich.<\/p>\n

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Fico (far left) with Putin. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Speaking at a joint press conference with Hungarian Prime minister Viktor Orban in Bratislava on Tuesday, Fico based his accusations on a report prepared by the Slovak Information Service (SIS) intelligence agency.<\/p>\n

\u201cI cannot disclose the content of the report, but I can say in all seriousness that the opposition is preparing a \u2018Maidan\u2019. It is gearing up to thwart the government from exercising its powers and it will do this in cooperation with foreign actors,\u201d <\/em>he said.<\/p>\n

Fico said his opponents have failed to notice that the \u201cglobal state of affairs has changed significantly,\u201d<\/em> apparently referring to Donald Trump replacing Joe Biden as US president.<\/p>\n

The Slovak prime minister, who advocates a peaceful settlement of the Ukraine conflict and restoration of ties with Russia, claimed that the pro-Western opposition will try to push his country towards an early election, \u201cbased on some type of event, for instance, if security forces took action against protest activities violating the law.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Earlier on Tuesday, Fico presented the SIS report during an extraordinary parliament session called by his political rivals in order to hold a no-confidence vote to dismiss the government. After the prime minister argued that the document was confidential and should be discussed behind closed doors, the opposition withdrew its no-confidence motion in protest, saying it would stage a new vote soon.<\/p>\n

Opposition MPs described the report as \u201cnonsense\u201d<\/em> and \u201ca clear conspiracy theory,\u201d<\/em> claiming there was nothing confidential about it as it contained \u201cinformation anyone can find on Google.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not the ones preparing a \u2018Maidan\u2019, but I have serious concerns that this government is. It would not be difficult for someone to stage a provocation at an otherwise peaceful demonstration, providing an excuse to claim they\u2019re protecting the state\u2026 while beginning to detain individuals based on some list,\u201d<\/em> Christian Democratic Movement (KDH) lawmaker Frantisek Miklosko claimed.<\/p>\n

In a Facebook post later in the day, Fico warned his rivals that he would not allow them to hold another no-confidence vote unless they had a parliamentary majority. The ruling coalition in Slovakia holds 76 seats in the legislature, only two more than the opposition.<\/p>\n

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Referring to the Western backed unrest in Ukraine, which toppled the democratically elected government of President Yanukovych and led ultimately to war with Russia, Prime Minister Fico says Western-backed groups are attemting to foment a similar upheaval in Slovakia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=302351"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302370,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302351\/revisions\/302370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}