BRATISLAVA: A liberal environmental lawyer known for fighting graft is poised for a thumping victory in Slovakia's presidential run-off, polls showed Friday , amid a strong public backlash against the murder of a journalist probing high-level corruption.
A poll by the Median agency for public broadcaster RTVS suggested on Thursday that Caputova would score 60.5 per cent support based on a survey of 1,014 voting-age Slovaks. They were gunned down gang-land style in their home in February 2018 as Kuciak was about to publish a report on alleged ties between Slovak politicians and the Italian mafia and associated irregularities in EU farm subsidy payments.Kuciak's murder and his last explosive report, published posthumously, plunged the country into crisis, sparking weekly mass protests that forced the government to resign in March 2018.
Transparency International ranks Slovakia in 57th place in its list of the world's most corrupt countries and high-level corruption has long been a top election issue.