Will Tizard Contributor Zuzana Caputova rose to the Slovak president’s office on a wave of outrage over corruption and her historic win signaled hope for millions of her country-folk.
Five years after the 2019 win, Caputova chose to walk away from the highest office in the land rather than continue fighting the good fight.
As Marek Sulik, director of “Ms. President” – which tracks her rise and fall – explains, Caputova wasn’t interested in power for power’s sake. “Zuzana Caputova has a fascinating ability to stay herself,” Sulik said at the Ji.hlava Documentary Film Festival, which opened Friday with the film.
Caputova’s unlikely election grew out of mass protests and anger in the aftermath of the contract killing of Slovak journalist Jan Kuciak and his partner Martina Kusnirova in 2018.
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