Slovaks Vote As Journalist’s Murder Drives ‘Desire For Change’
February 29, 2020
Slovaks voted in a general election on Saturday expected to oust the governing populists from power amid an angry backlash over the 2018 gangland-style murder of a journalist whose stories exposed high-level corruption in the eurozone country.
Allegedly a hit ordered by a businessman with connections to politicians, the killing of Jan Kuciak, which also took the life of his fiancee Martina Kusnirova, has become a lightning rod for public outrage at graft in public life.