Slovak President Zuzana Caputova will meet Robert Fico, whose SMER-SSD party won Saturday's election, at 3 p.m. (1300 GMT) on Monday and hand him a political mandate to start negotiations to form a new government, her office said.
Slovakia's President Zuzana Caputova addresses media ahead of a NATO leaders summit in Vilnius, Lithuania July 11, 2023. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins/File Photo, at 3 p.m. on Monday and hand him a political mandate to start negotiations to form a new government, her office said.SMER beat liberal challenger Progresivne Slovensko , which got 18% of votes.
Without a majority, Fico is expected to turn to HLAS , a more pro-European party which split off from SMER in 2020, and most likely a pro-Russian Slovak National Party , which won 5.6% of the vote, to form a coalition.Turkey said it unleashed air strikes on militant targets in northern Iraq and detained suspects in Istanbul overnight, hours after Kurdish militants said they orchestrated the first bomb attack in the capital Ankara in years.
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