Robert Fico’s pro-Russian party is doing significantly better than predicted. The three-time Prime Minister was recently under investigation and was in custody; now he no longer has to worry about prosecution.
Robert Fico is back, the three-time prime minister can form a new government in Slovakia: pro-Russian, anti-democratic. With almost 23 percent, his Smer-SD party did significantly better than predicted in all surveys. With the left-wing populist party of former Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini and the right-wing extremist party SNS, Fico has a majority of 79 out of 150 seats in the Slovak National Council.