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Slovaks are voting in a parliamentary election on Saturday, a knife-edge vote that could radically reshape Slovakia’s approach to Ukraine and create deep rifts within NATO and the European Union.

The frontrunner, former Prime Minister Robert Fico, has made no secret of his affinity for the Kremlin during the election campaign. He has criticized the West for supporting Ukraine and adopted a strong anti-US message, even accusing Slovakia’s President Zuzana Čaputová of being an “American agent.” He has said that if elected, he would stop sending weapons to Ukraine and block Ukraine’s NATO ambitions.

Fico’s left-wing populist SMER party has been leading for months, although opinion polls published earlier this week showed SMER neck-and-neck with the Progressive Slovakia (PS) party.

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[-] Mindlight@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

Slovakia will ending their support for Ukraine isn't a problem as to what will happen when the US and EU stops supporting Slovakia.

The amount of money the US and EU has poured into Slovakia the last ten twenty years is far from insignificant.

If Slovakia decides to stop believing in Europe then Europe will stop believing in Slovakia.

[-] Cossty@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm from Slovakia. It is even worse than it sounds.

Even if PS (a very pro europien party) wins, they probably wont have enough chairs in the parlament to acually do anything worth mentioning. So Smer wins even if they lose elections.

Today is voting day, I was acually on my way to the voting place when I saw this here.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Good luck! Your vote will help change the world! Thank you for going out and doing your civic duty.

[-] Cossty@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago
[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

You did what you could.

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago

If he really has no issues with what Russia is doing he should show it by having his kids taken and placed with Russian families. Then when he's done that he can give up part of his country to Russia, maybe even invite them to blow up a few schools.

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 1 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


“Slovakia has been chosen (by Russia) as the country where there is fertile soil for success of the Russian pro-Kremlin, pro-war narratives,” Věra Jourová, the European Commission’s top digital affairs official, told a news conference Tuesday.

With as many as nine parties potentially reaching the 5% threshold needed to enter the parliament, coalition negotiations will almost certainly include multiple players and could be long and messy.

Hlas, a party that was formed as an offshoot of SMER following an internal dispute between Fico loyalists and the-then Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini, was polling third in the last and could turn out to be the kingmaker.

Pellegrini became prime minister in 2018 after Fico resigned following weeks of protests in the wake of the murder of investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiance Martina Kušnírová.

Fico has called on the Slovak government to stop supplying weapons to Kyiv, and said that if he were to become prime minister, Slovakia would “not send another round of ammunition.” He is also opposed to Ukraine joining NATO.

If Poland’s governing Law and Justice party manages to win a third term in Polish parliamentary elections next month, this bloc of EU troublemakers could become even stronger.


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[-] itscozydownhere@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Sadly, dezinformacja works

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