Former Prime Minister and Finance Minister Igor Matovič shared an anti-trans post on Facebook, followed by a post in which he wrote we live in a “sick age, when sick is allegedly normal and normal is sick,” mentioning a third type of toilet or “73 genders” as an example.
Matovič was finance minister until the middle of December when he was forced to step down in exchange for the former coalition party Freedom and Solidarity supporting a budget for 2023. Prior to the budget vote, Heger’s government lost a no-confidence vote and thus had to work hard to find the votes for the budget.
Snap elections are likely to be held either in June or September. Negotiations on the issue between the parties are currently underway. Matovič claims that the “election campaign has begun.”
According to the sociologist Václav Hřích from the AKO agency, the OĽaNO leader may be “testing the new target group” with his anti-LGBTI+ social media posts.
“The anti-corruption issue has worked for him in the past, he has already targeted families with a family package last year, which is a conservative agenda, now he is trying to win over the extremist voter,” Hřích said and added that this “may be just a test, but also a long-term agenda.”
Hřích compared Matovič to another former PM Robert Fico (Smer), who used to be a strong supporter of the Slovak integration into the “EU core”, but switched his focus to the extremist waters after the murder of journalists Ján Kuciak and his fianceé in 2018.
(Michal Hudec | EURACTIV.sk)
Source: euractiv.com
