BRATISLAVA — Slovakia’s parliamentary election produced more confusion than clarity. There’s no obvious path to a stable government, raising the prospect of political crisis just months before the country takes over the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union.
Although Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico’s center-left Direction-Social Democracy (Smer-SD) party technically won with 28.3 percent, according to results posted after 99 percent of the votes were counted, a severely divided electorate sent eight very different parties to parliament, including two far-right ones.
The result gives Smer 49 seats in the 150-member parliament. Second is the liberal Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) …read more
Source: European Voice
