Prosecutors push to ban Slovak far-right party


  • World
  • Thursday, 25 May 2017

FILE PHOTO - A leader of People's Party Our Slovakia (LS NS), Marian Kotleba, attends a commemoration of the 87th anniversary of the death of Slovak general Milan Rastislav Stefanik near the village of Brezova pod Bradlom, Slovakia, in this May 6, 2006 file photo. REUTERS/Radovan Stoklasa/Files

BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Slovak prosecutors took steps to ban a far-right party that won its first parliamentary seats last year, saying on Thursday it posed a threat to the country's democratic system.

The People's Party-Our Slovakia, which openly admires Jozef Tiso, leader of a Nazi puppet state that ruled the country during World War Two, won a larger-than-expected 8 percent of the vote in national elections in March 2016.

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