A party headed by a pro-Kremlin figure came out top after securing more votes than expected in an election in Slovakia, preliminary results show, in what could pose a challenge to NATO and EU unity on Ukraine.
According to preliminary results released by Slovakia’s Statistical Office at 9 a.m. local time, Robert Fico’s populist SMER party won 22.9% of the vote.
Progressive Slovakia (PS), a liberal and pro-Ukrainian party won 17.9%.
Fico, a two-time former prime minister, now has a chance to regain the job but must first seek coalition partners as his party did not secure a big enough share of the vote to govern on its own.
I cannot fathom how Slovakians arrive at the conclusion that sucking up to Russia is in any way in their best interest?
I bet there’s a lot of Russian propaganda behind it, but how does reality not beat propaganda? It’s like a nation of 25+% anti-vaxxers!
I’d imagine corruption in government plays a huge role. Seems to be a lot of it these days.
Which is why they just voted for a corrupt oligarch who may have ties to the maffia and who may be complicit in the murder of a journalist.
As the Americans say, ‘Drain the Swamp’.
It’s like a nation of 25+% anti-vaxxers!
Well… yes, actually.
shit.
Honestly, I don’t understand why this happens
Old female demography. Mostly uneducated (only school, no further education), mostly russian TV watching groups eating up russian propaganda and misinformation about fear of EU, Immigrants and LGBT. You can pick any country in east europe from poland to the south balkan, the russian misinformation is very effective pandering the non-existing “great replacement”, a lie that russia is pushing that the EU want to replace the citiziens of each country with a different ethnicity. Why? Doesn’t matter, fear is not rational. At the same time russia is bringing young people from syria (a region they themself keep destabilized to create desperate masses to flee into Europe) to Moscovia with fake letters of free University Invites and then pack these people up in busses and brings them through Belarus to the outer borders of the EU countries to increase the stories, pictures and scenes of mass immigration to prop up the talking point of the far right in all these countries. It is very effective and people who only watch russian TV will never see the grand scheme and will vote hard right, against their own good.
Russian bots do a lot of damage. I see it in my own country Slovenia. All the biggest public forums are overrun by extreme pro Russian sentiment. Any reasonable debate is out of the question. It creates a bubble for radicalising people, especially young people that need a reason to rebel against the government, the west and EU.
I wonder who the most famous Slovenian is. I suspect it’s a tie between Melania Trump and Tito.
Number one would be Luka Dončič. Second probably Slavoj Žižek. Tito was not Slovenian. Melanija unfortunately is.
EU sanctions will continue until national policy improves.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A party headed by a pro-Kremlin figure came out top after securing more votes than expected in an election in Slovakia, preliminary results show, in what could pose a challenge to NATO and EU unity on Ukraine.
According to preliminary results released by Slovakia’s Statistical Office at 9 a.m. local time, Robert Fico’s populist SMER party won 22.9% of the vote.
Fico, a two-time former prime minister, now has a chance to regain the job but must first seek coalition partners as his party did not secure a big enough share of the vote to govern on its own.
Slovakia, an eastern European nation of about 5.5 million people, was going to the polls to choose its fifth prime minister in four years after seeing a series of shaky coalition governments.
If Poland’s governing Law and Justice party manages to win a third term in Polish parliamentary elections next month, this bloc of EU troublemakers could become even stronger.
The campaign was marked by concerns over disinformation, with Věra Jourová, the European Commission’s top digital affairs official, saying in advance the vote would be a “test case” of how effective social media companies have been in countering Russian propaganda in Slovakia.
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Not a supporter of the war but just noticed that western media is covering this with a sprinkling of their own propaganda. Just read telegraph’s piece on this. They seem to think that nato’s expansion is normal and just fine. And they also seem to call the presence of Nazi groups in Ukraine Russian propaganda.
There is clear propaganda war going on on both sides. Anti nato doesn’t neccesarily mean pro russia. A lot of western people don’t seem to be able to wrap their heads around this.
