Slovak President Peter Pellegrini will now have to answer the petition and contemplate holding a referendum
Activists in Slovakia have gathered almost 400,000 signatures demanding the lifting of EU sanctions in opposition to Russia. The nation’s president, Peter Pellegrini, will now have to answer the petition and contemplate holding a referendum inside a month.
Members of the Slovak Revival Motion (SHO) and the nationwide social gathering DOMOV, who’re behind the petition, have submitted the signatures to the workplace of the president. They need the federal government to pose the next query to its residents: “Do you agree that… sanctions in opposition to the Russian Federation hurt Slovak residents, tradesmen and entrepreneurs?”
Commenting on the initiative that was launched late final yr and has surpassed the 350,000 threshold for consideration, Pellegrini’s workplace promised to “deal with petition sheets strictly in accordance with the regulation.”
SHO chief Robert Svec stated he expects the president to not ignore the petition and to name for a referendum, citing Pellegrini’s personal presumed skepticism concerning anti-Russian sanctions.
In late March, the activists held a convention referred to as ‘For Slovakia With out Sanctions,’ that was attended by quite a few politicians and economists.
Talking on the time, DOMOV chief Pavol Slota claimed that Slovakia’s future is determined by whether or not the sanctions in opposition to Moscow shall be lifted or not.
“It’s about our complete nation, all Slovak residents,” he said.
Economist Peter Stanek, in flip, stated that “there are dozens of research that clearly present that sanctions have by no means labored,” affecting as a substitute “those that imposed them.”
Slovakia applied the sweeping EU sanctions imposed on Russia following the escalation of the Ukraine battle in February 2022. Robert Fico, who grew to become prime minister in 2023, has maintained that the punitive measures “are usually not working,” and doing extra hurt to member states than Moscow.
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