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  • Slovak prosecutors said on Monday that they had dropped charges against Robert Fico, leader of the ruling populist party and a former prime minister, accused of incitement to racial hatred. Police brought the hate speech charges against Fico in December for having publicly approved hate speech by a far-right lawmaker against the country's large Roma minority. "Special prosecutor Dusan Kovacik issued a decision revoking the entire resolution" against Fico, Jana Tokolyova, a spokeswoman for prosecutors told AFP, specifying that while the decision had been taken on December 31 it was only made public on Monday. Fico had faced up to five years in prison had he been found guilty as charged. In September, Slovakia's Supreme Court found far-right lawmaker Milan Mazurek guilty of hate speech for disparaging comments he made about the Roma minority on the radio in 2016. He lost his parliamentary seat as a result. Days after the verdict, Fico said in a video message that "Milan Mazurek said what almost the entire nation thinks" adding that "should I be afraid to say that some Roma abuse our social system?" Fico was forced to resign as prime minister in 2018, after the murder of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak -- who was probing high-level corruption -- triggered mass anti-government protests. Fico remains the leader of the governing left-wing populist Smer-SD party and is widely seen as still pulling the strings. Support for his party, the Smer-SD, has dropped to a historic low of around 20 percent, but it is still poised to win February's general election. juh/mas/cdw
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  • Former Slovak PM cleared of hate speech charges
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