In 2010, he founded Demand Progress, a lobbying group that advocates for progressive policy changes and has played adecisiverole in recent battles against Internet censorship.
Nonetheless, despite all of its progress Slovakia still has extremely serious problems with official corruption, problems so bad that they played adecisiverole in deciding the recent parliamentary election.
Ms Silva's votes have given her adecisiverole in the second round, but instead of the environment, abortion has become the main theme, with videos circulating on the internet portraying Ms Rousseff as a "pro-abortion".