Slovak leaders pay tribute to Czechoslovakia’s co-founders

Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová and Speaker of Parliament Peter Pellegrini marked the founding of Czechoslovakia in Bratislava on the eve of the anniversary, laying wreaths at the memorials of Czechoslovak co-founders Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and Milan Rastislav Štefánik. “The establishment of Czechoslovakia in 1918 laid the foundations for an independent Slovakia in the years to come,” President Čaputová said, describing the common state of Czechs and Slovaks as "a very modern, democratic republic in its day and age, which laid the foundations for an independent judiciary and suffrage for women”. October 28 is not a public holiday in Slovakia.