Slovak PM Fico Convenes Security Council Over Alleged Planned ‘Coup’ by Group Linked to Events in Georgia and Ukraine’s Maidan

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico is calling a meeting of the Security Council for 9:00 a.m. today to consider information from the Slovak Intelligence Service (SIS) about an alleged upcoming ‘power grab’.

This was reported by SME and Tasr.

It is noted that the meeting will be held in an expanded format with the participation of President Peter Pellegrini and the leadership of the parliament.

According to Fico, it is obvious that the opposition ‘does not want to engage in a fair political struggle’. He claims that an ‘expert group’ is allegedly operating in Slovakia, which has been dealing with ‘the events in Georgia’ and the protests ‘on the Ukrainian Maidan’. He noted that this group was being strictly monitored. The Slovak prime minister said that the group was planning protests and the seizure of government buildings, parliament and the presidential palace.

In addition to conspiracy theories, in recent weeks and especially in recent days, the prime minister has widened the rift with Ukraine over the suspension of Russian gas transit and continues to align himself with illiberal democracies in Hungary and Turkey and with leaders of non-democratic countries such as Russia and China.

Deputy Prime Minister Peter Kmetz of Hlas on Tuesday said that the coalition is actually in danger of collapsing due to the loss of the parliamentary majority from within. He noted that the parliamentary session scheduled for February, at which the coalition was supposed to resolve controversial issues, will not take place.

While the prime minister is spouting theories about Maidan, which he says is the opposition's way of overthrowing the current government without elections, the coalition is discussing the reconstruction of the government. The latter must either provide the coalition with stable support of at least 76 MPs to govern, or the coalition and its government will collapse on its own initiative from within.