Anti-government protests held in Slovakia for the third consecutive week
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About 65,000 people have attended anti-government protests held in Slovakia for the third consecutive week.
Outrage over the killing of journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kusnirova prompted Prime Minister Robert Fico to resign on Thursday.
But demonstrators say Mr Fico will continue to exercise power and are calling for early elections.
Mr Fico said his coalition government had a mandate to serve its full four-year term, which ends in 2020.
Mr Kuciak was investigating alleged political corruption linked to Italian organised crime.
His final unfinished story was published after his death in late February, stoking public anger against a government widely seen as failing to tackle corruption.
The death of Mr Kuciak and the publication of his final story have cost Mr Fico, the interior minister, culture minister, and other senior officials their jobs.
Last week's protest in Bratislava was thought to be the largest demonstration in the country since the fall of communism, with more than 40,000 people attending the march.
This week the crowd there was even larger, with protesters chanting not for the resignation of the prime minister, but for early elections to replace the government en masse.
After the killings, seven people were arrested for questioning - but all were released shortly afterwards.
Nobody has been charged with the murders.
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