A Look at Slovakia’s Elections for “Ordinary People”

Posted by Scott Lucas | Mar 1, 2020 | 0

Igor Matovic, the leader of Slovakia’s Ordinary People Party (EPA)

The University of Birmingham’s Tim Haughton joined BBC World Service on Sunday to explain Slovakia’s elections and why the political landscape has changed with the victory of the Ordinary People Party (OLaNO).

Listen to Discussion from 26:30

Haughton says of the election, sparked by a series of corruption scandals and the 2018 murder of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kusnirova.

At the core of OLaNO’s appeal is an anti-corruption, rule of law message rather than a traditional left-right understanding of politics.
It’s very easy to make an anti-corruption appeal. It’s harder to deliver it.

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Scott Lucas

Scott Lucas is Professor of International Politics at the Clinton Institute, University College Dublin; Professor Emeritus of International Politics at the University of Birmingham; and editor-in-chief of EA WorldView.He is a specialist in US and British foreign policy and international relations, especially the Middle East and Iran. Formerly he worked as a journalist in the US, writing for newspapers including the Guardian and The Independent and was an essayist for The New Statesman before he founded EA WorldView in November 2008.