Slovakia: Social Democrats win the elections

Slovakia: Social Democrats win the elections




The parliamentary elections in Slovakia resulted in a fragmented parliament, according to the almost total official results: outgoing Prime Minister Robert Fico, although emerged winner with a share of 28.3% of the votes, is likely to find it difficult to form a coalition .

These occur while Slovakia, where a far-right nationalist party first entered parliament, is expected to assume the rotating EU presidency in July.

According to the results after the counting of 99% of the ballots, eight parties exceed the electoral threshold of 5% and share the 150 seats in parliament.

The Fico, leader of the social democratic Smer-SD party had epkentrosei campaigning in refusing to accept migrants in Slovakia, but the strikes of teachers and nurses and nurses brought in second place this question on public opinion.

The Fico party is expected to occupy 49 parliamentary seats, and had an absolute majority of 83 seats in the outgoing parliament.

On a "large scale political earthquake" spoke Igor Matovits, leader of the conservative OLANO-NOVA party, according to the Slovak news agency TASR.