Robert Fico’s Smer party was ahead of rivals Progressive Slovakia in vote that could fuel fears about Slovakia’s future foreign policy orientation
Populist former prime minister Robert Fico’s Smer party is on course to win Slovakia’s election, garnering more support than its rival Progressive, Smer is set to take over 23% of the vote. Michal Šimečka’s Progressive Slovakia came second with over 16%, followed closely by Peter Pellegrini’s Hlas with 15%.
The first party across the line was expected to get a mandate from President Zuzana Caputova to lead talks on forming a parliamentary majority and, if successful, a government.Photograph: Vladimír Šimíček/AFP/Getty Images “We do want to evaluate everything, so we will wait for the final count,” said Robert Kalinak, a Smer-SSD candidate and long-time Fico ally, adding the party would comment on the full results later on Sunday.
“It remains our aim for Slovakia to have after this election a stable pro-European government that will care for the rule of law and which begins to solve and invest into areas key for our future,” Simecka, a European parliament member and former reporter and Oxford graduate, told supporters.
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