Thousands Protest in Slovakia to Stop Prime Minister’s Judiciary Revamp
- Fico faces calls to scrap changes to penal code, prosecutors
- President said proposals are threat to internal security
People attend a demonstration to protest against the government's plan to close a special prosecutor's office, in Bratislava, Slovakia on Jan. 11.
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Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets across Slovakia to protest a proposed overhaul of the judiciary by Prime Minister Robert Fico, the European Union’s latest leader accused of eroding democratic standards and the rule of law.
In power since October, Fico is coming under mounting pressure from the public, opposition and the EU to abolish or scale back the plans, which include a revamp of the penal code and scrapping a prosecutor’s office tasked with probing corruption and serious crime.