While international press coverage of yesterday’s Slovak regional election focussed mainly on the defeat of the right-wing extremist L’SNS, the bigger picture was one of heavy losses for the nationally-ruling Social Democrats of SMER-SD. The party of Prime Minister Robert Fico lost four of its six regional Presidencies to the centre-right opposition – the combined […]
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Fico remains in pole position in Slovakia
Just over a year has passed since Slovakia’s current coalition government was sworn in late March 2016. As this month’s poll from Median SK shows below, little has changed in the balance of forces since then, apart from the implosion of then-junior coalition partner Siet (Network) last summer. Prime Minister Robert Fico of […]