Former Slovak President Andrej Kiska, who leads the government party For the People, has decided to end politics for good. As the Slovak newspaper Nový čas noted, the ex-president announced his decision after months of silence. Kisku is suffering from health problems, which was the reason for his decision. However, Kiska also expressed disappointment that his party is the smallest member of the governing coalition after the February parliamentary elections.
“My health does not allow me to remain active in politics,” he wrote Kiska and added that he would have another operation on Monday, the third in five years and the second in less than a year. Despite last year’s surgery, the heart still suffers from an arrhythmia, which is sometimes not even repeatedly removed. As early as Friday, he therefore announced to his party’s presidency that he would not run for president at the August assembly.
According to him, the party is not about one person, everyone is replaceable. According to Kiska, the People’s Party also needs to “breathe in again”, even though the government manages the Ministry of Justice and the ministry that includes European Union funds.
“Our minister and our 12 deputies are working to make Slovakia a more decent country, where justice applies to everyone equally, where corruption and ‘locals’ do not prevail.” Roberta) we definitely beat, he has no chance to come back. But that is not enough, Slovakia must move forward, “said the former president.
During his tenure, Kiska also clashed many times with the populist Prime Minister Fico, whose political decline began after the assassination of journalist Ján Kuciak and his partner. A wave of outrage forced Fico’s resignation as head of government. The parliamentary elections on the last day of February ended Fico’s dominance of the Social Democracy Party (Smer-SD), which left the opposition after four victories in a row.
Already in March, Kiska announced that he was resigning the mandate of the deputy who was elected in the February elections. He also justified this by health complications, due to which he did not participate in the last negotiations on the creation of a government four-party coalition.
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