Slovakia's Opposition Slams Government Bill on Street Naming Rules for Communist-Era Figures

Slovakia's opposition Progressive Slovakia party has strongly rejected a proposed amendment to municipal laws from the Interior Ministry that would change rules for naming streets after figures from the 1939-1945 regime and the communist totalitarian period. The bill, authored by Interior Minister Matúš Šutaj Eštok, seeks to modify how local authorities evaluate whether streets can be named after personalities from these historical periods. Progressive Slovakia accused the ruling coalition of relativizing totalitarianism through the proposed legislation. The current law likely restricts or prohibits naming streets after individuals associated with these regimes, though the specific changes proposed in the amendment were not detailed in available reports.