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Robert Fico doubles down on pro-Russia stance after Slovakia election win
| Fico told reporters he was waiting for Slovakia’s president to give him a mandate to start forming a government – expected on Monday – after officials said on Sunday that Smer-SD had scored 22.9% in Saturday’s vote with 99.98% of ballots counted.
| Fico said he was ready to open talks with other parties on forming a coalition government. “We’re here, we’re ready, we’ve learned something, we’re more experienced,” he said. “We have clear ideas; we have clear plans.”
| The 59-year-old, whose pro-Moscow stance has sparked fears Slovakia will join Hungary and its authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán in challenging the EU’s consensus on support for Kyiv, added: “People in Slovakia have bigger problems than Ukraine.”
Fico has leaned close to Orbán, who congratulated him on his victory on Sunday. “Guess who’s back!” the Hungarian prime minister said on X, formerly known as Twitter. “Always good to work together with a patriot. Looking forward to it.”
| Fico said his party was “not changing [its view] that we are prepared to help Ukraine in a humanitarian way … we are prepared to help with the reconstruction of the state. But you know our opinion on arming Ukraine.”
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| The liberal, pro-western Progressive Slovakia (PS) party finished second on just under 18%, with Hlas – a spin-off from Smer formed after Fico was forced to resign in 2018 amid mass popular protests following the murder of an investigative journalist and his fiancée – third on almost 15%.
Source https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/01/robert-fico-doubles-down-on-pro-russia-stance-after-slovakia-election-win
| So seems Russian misinformation and propaganda efforts have bamboozled people to put a corrupt pro gremlin leader back into power who also has mob ties.
| Wild considering people years ago rose up to throw Fico out after it was rumoured he had a journalist killed now people have been hypnotised and quickly forgotten.
| bruh moments of 2023 October compilation
| Finally a reasonable politician in government
| Your mom said that about me when I was banging her
| >>977970
It's not like there's an overwhelming majority that's supporting his party. The votes are pretty evenly distributed. Yeah, it still dumb af but it's (hopefully) not the end of Slovakian democracy.
On a different note it's really fucking cool how many independent politicans Slovakia employs in high seats in their government. Non-partisan politicians seems like a dying breed tbh.
| I get the feeling that some countries aren't fully lead by their politicans but by oligarchs or sometimes the mafia. For some countries it doesn't matter which party you vote for because everything stays mostly the same after each election. The real power lies with undemocratic powerplayers which sucks because they're more easily corruptable and rich enough to not want to participate in society. It's a major problem here in Sweden.
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| Slovakia’s populist former prime minister, Robert Fico, who campaigned on a pledge to end military aid to Ukraine, has said his position “has not changed” after his party’s clear election win made him favourite to lead the country for a fourth time.