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Thousands of people on Wednesday evening again demonstrated outside the parliament in Bratislava against a judicial reform planned by the Slovak government. The three-party coalition led by left-wing nationalist Prime Minister Robert Fico wants to have the reform passed by its parliamentary majority on Thursday. The demonstrators waved Slovakian flags, carried banners with slogans such as “Shame on the Fico mafia government!” and chanted “We don’t want Fico!” The planned judicial reform provides for the courts to impose fewer prison sentences, particularly for cases of white-collar crime, and …

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