Slovakia’s Direction-Slovak Social Democracy (Smer-SSD) party, led by former Prime Minister Robert Fico, won the country’s parliamentary elections on Saturday, September 30. Fico said at a press conference that his political movement viewed the situation in Ukraine as “a huge tragedy for everyone.” The politician said that, “if Smer-SSD is entrusted with forming a government, we will do everything to make sure that peace talks begin as soon as possible,” Vedomosti reports. Fico already has been entrusted with forming a government.
Fico is most likely to form a coalition with the Voice social democratic party, which broke off from Smer-SSD in 2020, and the Slovak National Party, noted Kirill Teremetsky, an expert at the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies at the Higher School of Economics (HSE University) in Moscow,.
“If Fico really acts on behalf of the so-called ‘peace party’ on the Ukraine issue, then Hungary and Austria will have an ally within the European Union calling for an immediate ceasefire and peace talks,” the expert pointed out.
