Slovak president awarded by Brno university, warns of populism

Slovak President Andrej Kiska warned of populism and the stirring of people's mistrust of the state in a speech he gave today in Brno's Masaryk University (MU), which awarded him for his contribution to the political tradition as launched by the founding-fathers of Czechoslovakia. In his speech, Kiska warned against populism and the stirring of hatred and mistrust in the state, and said the advocates of democracy and a free open society must keep vigilant. "A short while of inattention may be enough for everything that has taken democracy years to achieve to be taken away by the evil or totalitarianism overnight," Kiska said.