Smer’s “left sovereigntists” won early elections in Slovakia. The social democratic party of former pro-Russian prime minister Robert Fico won more than 23 percent of the vote, while the centrists of Progresívne Slovensko (Progressive Slovakia, abbreviated as PS), led by Michal Šimečka, claimed just under 18 percent of the vote. Now we proceed to finalize. In third place is Peter Pellegrini’s Hlas-Sd party, which collected around 14 percent of the votes and is preparing to be decisive in the formation of the new government. With Igor Matovič’s OĽaNO party in fourth place with around 9%. Voter turnout was approximately 68 percent.
The Hlas leader has so far kept all hypotheses open by refusing to say which party he will support after the vote, but in Slovakia he is believed to be more inclined to ally with Smer rather than join forces with Progressive Slovakia’s liberals (leader Peter Pellegrini said Fico is in Smer was his assistant).
Exit polls showed the more moderate Progresívne Slovensko party in the lead, but Robert Fico ultimately came out on top. The 59-year-old leader of Smer was prime minister of Slovakia twice, from July 2006 to July 2010 and from April 2012 to March 2018. His party is anti-liberal on economics and conservative on women’s rights. minorities. So much so that during the election campaign, Fico promised to stop military aid to Ukraine (he said Slovakia would no longer “send a single munition”), criticized sanctions against Russia, and launched a campaign against LGBTQ+ rights. After Orban’s Hungary, another EU country is preparing to “challenge” the Union’s support policy for Ukraine.
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