By Jan Lopatka BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Slovaks were voting on Saturday in a parliamentary election closely fought between former leftist prime minister ...
By Jan Lopatka BRATISLAVA - Slovaks were voting on Saturday in a parliamentary election closely fought between former leftist prime minister Robert Fico, who has pledged to end military aidSaltWire's Atlantic regional weather forecast for September 29, 2023 | SaltWireBRATISLAVA - Slovaks were voting on Saturday in a parliamentary election closely fought between former leftist prime minister Robert Fico, who has pledged to end military aid for neighbouring Ukraine, and pro-Western liberals.
It would also add to a bloc of eastern ex-Communist states with governments publicly hostile to liberalism, along with Poland's nationalist PiS, which also faces an election next month, though Poland remains pro-Ukrainian. The moderate-left Hlas of Peter Pellegrini, an ex-SMER-SSD member and prime minister in 2018-20, is seen coming third and may be the kingmaker. He has kept his options open but said this week his party was closer to Fico.
"Fico benefitted from all that anxiety brought by the pandemic and the war, by the anger spreading in Slovakia in the past three years, and fuelling that anger," said sociologist Michal Vasecka.
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