MP Marcinková Plans to Formally Join Opposition Party SaS After Years of Cooperation

Slovak parliamentarian Marcinková has announced she intends to formally join the liberal opposition party Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) — a move that comes after years of close cooperation with the party without official membership. Marcinková made the remarks in an appearance on the political talk show Aréna, where she also indicated she is prepared to wait out the current government's term, suggesting she would again watch a prime ministerial inauguration from the embankment — a metaphor implying she expects the opposition to remain out of power for now. SaS is one of Slovakia's main center-right opposition parties, currently outside the ruling coalition led by Prime Minister Robert Fico's Smer-SD. The party has been a vocal critic of the Fico government's direction on issues ranging from rule of law to foreign policy.