Hundreds of Slovaks travel from Czechia on free trains to take part in elections at home

Hundreds of Slovaks, primarily students, set off from Prague's main railway station on Friday afternoon on a special free train to take part in Saturday's parliamentary elections in Slovakia. A second train will leave Brno for Bratislava shortly after 7 p.m.

The trains were paid for by four non-profit organisations with the aim of increasing voter turnout at the Slovak elections, given the large number of Slovaks living in Czechia. More than 1,000 people, of which roughly 60 percent were students, registered online for a place on the trains, according to the organisers.