Ivan Korčok campaigned in Komárom.
Early on Friday evening, Ivan Korčok held a presidential campaign meeting in Komárom at the local headquarters of Matica Slovenská. The auditorium was more than half full, which means about 150 interested people, which is considered a decent attendance at a political event these days. The audience included a mix of interested Slovak and Hungarian nationalities, who were joined behind the scenes by István Hamran, the former national police chief who was replaced by the Fico government.
Ivan Korčok told his short biography during a question-and-answer session, emphasizing that his family background could be called disadvantaged, since his mother worked as a nurse and his father as an ambulance driver. He formulated his political positions primarily in relation to the current coalition, and although he did not say them specifically, he made it clear by repeatedly mentioning the current president of the republic, in her person
voters can get a continuation of the spirit represented by Zuzana Čaputová.
The official speaker of the evening, Slovak actor Ludwig Bagin, turned to the "Hungarian topic" after a few warm-up questions. In connection with this, Korčok explained at length how important he considers the peaceful coexistence of Slovaks and Hungarians, and repeatedly complained that he
because of his comments about the Hungarian government, many of the Hungarians in Slovakia consider him Hungarian-phobic.
His facial expression looked completely serious even when, in response to a question from the audience, he said that he could not support the law on the legal status of minorities because, despite his repeated attempts, he was unable to meet with the former government commissioner for minorities, László Bukovszky, to discuss with him the secret plan that Korčok says was prepared some points of the bill. And he added, amazed, that they even wanted to include something like minority community rights in the proposal!
It is surprising how vehemently the Ministry of Foreign Affairs managed by Ivan Korčok torpedoed the minority law even before the government, but even more so is the fact that now Korčok wants to sew all this on the neck of László Bukovszky, who was replaced at the end of last year.
Government Commissioner Bukovszky laughed at our report and said that he himself initiated a meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, who in the end "passed" the topic to the Secretary of State and the officials of the Ministry, who started from the assumption that national minorities in Slovakia have rights above the expected level. Bukovszky added that if we want to talk about minority self-governments, for example, it should be taken for granted that we also accept collective minority rights.
A viewer mentioned that he considers Slovakia to be a multi-ethnic state, so he asked the question, what is Korčok's opinion about the preamble of the Constitution, which considers only the Slovak nation as the state-creator?
The candidate for President of the Republic said that, in his opinion, there is nothing wrong with the preamble of the country's Constitution, it expresses Slovakia's right to national self-determination, and in addition, the Constitution mentions national minorities after the founding Slovak nation, as if at the same time.
Korčok paid great attention to not commenting directly on domestic political events in Hungary during his speech. However, indirectly expressing his opinion, he explained: he does not want Hungary-like conditions in Slovakia, the essence of which is that they accept Western money, but create Eastern conditions. In one case, he critically remarked for half a sentence that he did not understand what the Hungarian politicians were fussing about here.
Perhaps even this half-sentence is enough for us to understand that even after thirty years of service in foreign affairs, Korčok observes with incomprehension the situation when the borders of the nation do not coincide with the borders of the country.
It must be admitted that Korčok did not sell a sack cat, and he has already made it clear that if he gets to the presidential palace, he will also be a suitable partner in the field of national rights for Robert Fico, whom he criticized so much throughout the evening, since it seems that both have a common denominator in that the current situation is the best that exists, and it is not necessary to change it.
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