The voters in Slovakia have caused a Surprise: A Pro-European Alliance was the strongest force, although the two partners exist only since recently.
The message is clear: The Slovaks have voted for Europe and against their government. Unlike in all of the surveys has not won the largest parliamentary party, but a new Alliance of the two EU-friendly forces.
“election campaign without fear, hatred and populism,”
the top candidate Michal Simecka speaks of a mandate for change. “We have made it clear that we think of Slovakia in a strong and democratic Europe, without a ‘But’ to add,” said Simecka. “We have conducted a positive campaign, without fear, hatred, and populism.”
had set Out in the spring Zuzana Caputova. The lawyer has one of the new liberal parties, the “Progressive Slovakia”, co-founded – just over two years ago. Your choice for President has given the Alliance is certainly a boost. Just like the revelations about Mafia structures in the state after the murder of the journalist, Jan Kuciak.
Robert Fico was forced to resign after weeks of protests as the Prime Minister back.
social Democrats in the crisis
The mass protests have had a long-time Prime Minister Robert Fico is moving to the resignation, changed the party, but hardly admits their top candidate Monika Flasikova family has one. “This is, above all, a result that should bring our party leadership for self-reflection. But to fool a real, not just a pre -.”
Flasikova-Benova has brought to the social-democratic Smer party, only just 16 percent. The worst election result in years. The decay was hardly to be stopped, believes the sociologist Michal Vasecka. “These elections indicate a massive change in Slovakia. This indicates not only the success of the new parties, but also the results of the Opposition. And, of course, the complete by the fall of the coalition partners.”
the extreme Right for the first time, with seat in the EU Parliament
These two, the right to national SNS and the Hungarian party Most-Hid, missed the jump over the national Five-percent-hurdle. You have lost, especially the young urban middle class. The was able to mobilise the new movement. But also the extreme right-wing “people’s party Our Slovakia” has increased. “I’m for the first Time in European elections,” says the 64-year-old Jana. “Previously I was a European skeptical. But in these extreme times, I have chosen the extreme.”
The party of neo-Nazi Marian Kotleba, with twelve percent of the strongest force in the third and win two out of the 13 Slovak seats. The election turnout was just under 23 percent, although significantly higher than in the EU-wide all-time low in 2014, with 13 percent. But then the young liberal parties will have to prove that you can not be so fast the Wind out of the sails of take. The next parliamentary elections are due in nine months.
surprise victory of the EU-friendly liberal in Slovakia
Marianne Allweis, ARD Prague
27.05.2019 07:15 PM
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