Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has commented on a recent incident when Slovak student Simon Omaník, wearing a ribbon in the colours of the Ukrainian flag on his jacket, refused to shake hands with President Peter Pellegrini.
  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    21 days ago

    I would take away his award and send him where he belongs, in front of all the media.

    Do it fuckhead, kid seems like he would turn you into laughing stock on live TV.

    Omaník explained his refusal by saying that Pellegrini’s victory in the spring 2024 elections over pro-Ukrainian candidate Ivan Korčok, whom he had painted as a “war candidate” during the campaign, “was a lie and an attempt to manipulate the lowest human instincts of fear and perhaps even anti-Ukrainian sentiment in some parts of the Slovak population.”

  • illi@lemm.eeEnglish
    33·
    21 days ago

    On brand for him - not the first time he critisized a student for speaking up.

    Also, apparently not shaking hands is disrespectful but enciting people to chant “american removed” in reference to our last president (who was opposed to Fico) a couple of years ago was a-ok.

    I can feel him still being buthurt for not winning presidential elections in the past as well.