A party headed by a pro-Kremlin figure came out top after securing more votes than expected in an election in Slovakia, preliminary results show, in what could pose a challenge to NATO and EU unity on Ukraine.

According to preliminary results released by Slovakia’s Statistical Office at 9 a.m. local time, Robert Fico’s populist SMER party won 22.9% of the vote.

Progressive Slovakia (PS), a liberal and pro-Ukrainian party won 17.9%.

Fico, a two-time former prime minister, now has a chance to regain the job but must first seek coalition partners as his party did not secure a big enough share of the vote to govern on its own.

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    1 year ago

    Oh shit! I forgot some East European countries were extremely anti-vaxxer too.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, and covid helped them very much. Fico was seemingly on his way out but then covid happened, the current government was incompetent in many ways and people extremely irritaded by everything. Fico (among others) ramped up the propaganda and disinformtion campaign, told people what they wanted to hear and slingshoted himself back to popularity.