SUMMARY-Saturday-November 17, 2018 - 10 p.m.

BRATISLAVA - Unfortunately, bad thoughts, selfishness and malice prevail also today, in the context of modern social networks, with some people confusing democracy with the idea they can do anything, said Parliamentary Chairman Andrej Danko (Slovak National Party/SNS) while laying a wreath at the communist victims memorial at the Vrakuna cemetery in Bratislava to mark the Day of Fight for Freedom and Democracy on Saturday. LEVI - Slovak skier Petra Vlhova finished second in the first women's World Cup slalom of the season in the Finnish ski resort Levi on Saturday. BRATISLAVA - President Andrej Kiska, Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini (Smer-SD), as well as several other politicians, ambassadors and members of the Slovak Political Prisoners Association took part in a commemorative event at the Freedom Gate Memorial below Devin Castle on Saturday to mark the Day of Fight for Freedom and Democracy. BRATISLAVA - Junior governing party Most-Hid didn't ask Parliamentary Chairman Andrej Danko (Slovak National Party/SNS) to resign from his post over his rigorous thesis, it only wanted him to take a personal decision, Most-Hid leader Bela Bugar said following the party's Republic Council meeting on Saturday. Bugar said that if his party wanted Danko to resign, it would have asked him to draw political responsibility for it. BRATISLAVA - There's Pavol Forisch, a close colleague of MP Jozef Rajtar (Freedom and Solidarity/SaS) behind a criminal complaint against 'For a Decent Slovakia' protest organisers, governing Smer-SD has posted on a social network. BRATISLAVA - A sole - collective White Crow award this year was bestowed posthumously to Jan Kuciak and to a group of investigative journalists at a ceremonial presentation in Bratislava on Saturday. BRATISLAVA - More and more politicians in our neighbourhood are getting inspired by an authoritarian style of politics, trying to implement non-democratic elements and therefore, we must be even more cautious and protect democracy, according to a resolution approved by Most-Hid's Republican Council at its meeting on Saturday. ko