Why did Čaputová honor the informants? The president admitted the truth – New Time

Zuzana Čaputová admitted a mistake. The president responded to the criticism that arose after she awarded the highest state awards to controversial people. She also praised the people who reported in the Slovak National Uprising and fought against it. “In the case of the awarding of Anton Tuneg, Albert Púčik and Eduard Tesár, an error occurred in the assessment process,” said Čaputová’s spokesman Martin Strižinec. “State awards should be given to people whose life story cannot provoke whether they have served democracy. I will do everything I can to ensure that similar controversies do not recur in the future,” the head of state said. The council of Ľudovít Štúr, I. They were members of the White Legion’s resistance organization and executed them as anti-communists in 1951. All three graduated from the Hlinka Youth Higher Leadership School. The head of the Office of the President, Metod Špaček, first announced that the award of the representatives of the White Legion of Púčik, Tesár and Tuneg to the Commission for State Awards was proposed by the Anton Tuneg Foundation in the usual way.