Currently, it seems that the political careers of Samuel Vlčan and Eduard Heger have ended, so it is reasonable to evaluate their political careers so far.
Samuel Vlčan
- I consider it manipulation and misleading, whether by the media or Matovič, that Budaj’s affair regarding the subsidies to Vlčan is blamed solely on Vlčan, while they forget to mention Budaj.
- I am not a specialist in agriculture, but what I know is that Vlčan partially succeeded in reforming the PPA, but he did not manage to completely remove corruption from there.
- It is also reasonable to compare Vlčan and Mičovský. Who is the lesser evil? Who will do less damage? An extremely bad manager Ján Mičovský or a very talented manager Samuel Vlčan, who had certain corruption affairs? Vlčan really managed the ministry very well from a managerial point of view. Mičovský was extremely weak from a managerial point of view and failed.
- A great positive of Vlčan was that forestry was also a priority for him, and he tried to portray forestry positively in the media, which was not a topic for his predecessors at all (except for Mičovský, of course).
- Furthermore, it turned out that Vlčan did not enter politics completely selflessly and did not perceive his mandate solely as a service to the people. Instead of protecting nature and the countryside from Budaj’s fools, instead of protecting the public interest, he prioritized business with Budaj in connection with the landfill, whether in the form of subsidies, higher revenues, and more. Budaj did not give the benefits for Vlčan’s landfill business for free. At first, I thought that Heger, who swallowed all of Budaj’s crazy lies, was pushing him into unfair practices with the crazy pseudo-reform of national parks, but in the end, it turned out that there were other interests involved.
- Matovič and MP Šudík are scoring political points on Vlčan’s advisor Martin Ondráš and on hatred. I have checked the information. There is no evidence that Ondráš was directly behind the subsidy for Vlčan’s secretary Kyseľ, or his family. The only thing Ondráš did was to criticize the disproportionate hate and disproportionate media hysteria over this minor case.
Igor Matovič
For Igor Matovič, the current number one enemy is Heger and the President. He is collecting political points on Vlčan’s case for preferences based on division and hatred. Currently, the President and Heger are a bigger enemy for Matovič than Robert Fico.
Eduard Heger
As I said right at the beginning of Eduard Heger’s prime ministerial term, it would not be blessed, and so it happened. The universe does not bless religious fanaticism. Heger became the least successful prime minister in the history of Slovakia. Every cloud has a silver lining. Now even religious fanatics must humbly admit that their man, a Pentecostal Christian, has failed and fallen. Hopefully, these people will at least think a little about whether religious fanaticism is really a cure for everything.
Heger wanted to curry favor with God before the end of his term, so he incorporated the comment of the Conference of Bishops of Slovakia in a very controversial way. Even that didn’t help him.
I believe that Heger’s story will be a lesson for secular people as well, that religious fanaticism does not belong in politics.
Caretaker government
At the time of writing this article, it is not yet known who the ministers will be. I am not worried about the caretaker government, except for two ministries: the Ministry of the Environment and the Ministry of Agriculture. It is publicly known that the President has very close ties and contacts with very dangerous left-wing extremists in the field of nature protection, such as Juraj Smatana, Mikuláš Huba, Juraj Rizman, and the like. If Huba or Smatana were to become ministers, then God help us, we will miss Budaj even more. We do not need psychiatric patients as ministers. I hope that the President is at least somewhat in touch with reality, I hope she knows how much pseudo-ecological extremism divides society and will not add fuel to the fire with more extremists. It will also be very important who becomes the Minister of Agriculture. The composition of both ministries will determine whether non-intervention in national parks will expand even further and whether the first private national park, Podunajsko, will be created for the egoistic business interests of the BROZ association.
I will add a statement about the caretaker government here if the names are known.
Ján Mičovský and Patrik Magdoško (updated 8 May 2023)
Furthermore, let’s not forget that Mičovský’s people were not entirely free of corruption either. In addition to the Bartošová case, Mičovský also appointed the extremely managerially incompetent head of the PPA, Jaroslav Jánoš, who also had an affair where he requested subsidies for land that was not his, and as far as I know, he had to return some money after the affair broke out.
Many of the affairs concerning Vlčan were also uncovered by former advisor Patrik Magdoško, who got into considerable verbal conflicts with Martin Ondráš. Many of them turned out to be fabricated. I warned the media to measure twice and cut once when it came to Patrik Magdoško. He is a legally convicted person who has a problem with alcohol. He was not exactly a trustworthy person, and he could have been motivated by a personal desire for revenge, as he and Mičovský were removed from their comfortable and well-paid positions at the ministry. Ondráš also argued that Magdoško was nervous because he himself had built certain corrupt mechanisms at the ministry for the benefit of his own companies, or rather, for the benefit of his friends. He also mentioned some more specific information somewhere on his Facebook. Personally, I think there was certainly some truth to it.
I certainly don’t think that Patrik Magdoška’s primary motivation was to fight for the public interest.
In conclusion: Mičovský’s people were probably slightly better in terms of corruption than Vlčan’s people, but Mičovský’s people are not without fault either.