A conservative populist party critical of NATO’s support for Ukraine in its war with Russia emerged as the top vote-getter in Slovakia’s national elections Saturday.
But former Prime Minister Robert Fico and his Smer party are still a long way from power as voters in the Eastern European nation spread their votes among a string of parties, with the pro-Ukraine Progressive Slovakia Party at 18%, just 5 percentage points behind Smer’s 23% in the preliminary tally.
A social conservative who has also campaigned against gay rights, Mr. Fico is seen as part of the same EU-skeptical movement that includes Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Poland’s ruling Law and Justice Party. With the vote so divided, Mr. Fico and Smer are not guaranteed to head the next coalition government. Michal Simecka of the Progressive Slovakia Party said there was still a good chance his party’s agenda would triumph in the party negotiations to come.
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