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RTVS's current director Ľuboš Machaj believes the proposal serves only one purpose: to take control of the public broadcaster. "I'm convinced that the changes proposed by the legislator have a clear purpose and contradict the European protection of public service media, as embedded in international standards, which, by the way, are binding for Slovakia," he said on Tuesday during the opening of a new creativity centre, which was also attended by the culture minister Martina Šimkovičová.

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The non-parliamentary opposition party Demokrati, led by former Slovak PM Eduard Heger, has already sent an official letter to the European Commission's vice-president for values and transparency, Věra Jourová, who is also responsible for #MediaFreedom.

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Michal Šimečka, the leader of Slovakia’s main opposition party, Progresívne Slovensko (PS), says the government wants to build its own state-controlled #propaganda television. “They want to create a media subservient to the government that will promote pro-Russian narratives,” he warned.