Hailed by liberals, Slovakia’s first female president is under a lot of pressure to turn the tide of populism
Slovakia's president-elect Zuzana Caputova speaks to a journalist in the front of the presidential palace in Bratislava, Slovakia. By Emily Tamkin Emily Tamkin Reporter covering foreign affairs Email Bio Follow April 1 at 8:21 AM Within a day of her election, Zuzana Caputova was being hailed as savior of liberalism.
In her acceptance speech, during which she spoke in Slovak and in the languages of her country’s main minorities — Hungarian, Czech, Roma and Ruthenian — Caputova said, “I am happy not just for the result, but mainly that it is possible not to succumb to populism, to tell the truth, to raise interest without aggressive vocabulary.
During the election, a photo of Caputova’s face was doctored to make her nose look bigger and more stereotypically Semitic. Fico took a jab at her last week when he called liberals “people without values.” And in Hungary, hours after her election, pro-government media had already called her “Soros-like.”
All of that said, the power of Slovakia’s president is limited compared to that of its prime minister. And Caputova’s victory, while meaningful to liberals and populists alike, will be short-lived if it’s seen as more than it is.
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