Fico's reaction borders on treason

It is wrong to strip ethnic Hungarians of their Slovakian citizenship should they decide to accept Hungary's citizenship offer, writes the Slovakian business paper Hospodárske noviny with an eye to the parliament's decision in Bratislava: "Prime Minister Fico's law panders to the lowest sentiments of electors, very much in the manner of [leader of the Slovak National Party] Ján Slota: 'All Hungarians go back over the Danube'. That is no solution. ... Stripping the Hungarians of their Slovakian citizenship only plays into Hungary's hands. Orbán is blaming the Slovakian government for making expellees of the Hungarian minority. He will demand a special status or even autonomy for them on the basis that the Slovakian government is stripping them of their legal foothold in the country. ... Fico is not acting in the interests of Slovakia but only in those of his own party. That can no longer be called populism, it's treason."

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