Progressive Slovakia polls at 18% against controversial former prime minister Robert Fico’s Smer party at 17.7%
, a senior research fellow at the Bratislava-based Globsec Policy Institute, told the Guardian today that the outcome of Saturday’s election is still “quite unpredictable” and that disinformation is affecting Slovak voters’ views.
The majority of Slovaks have “complete distrust” in political parties and government, Klingová said, pointing to the impact of the COVID pandemic, double-digit inflation and Russia’s war in Ukraine., along more than 1700 Facebook pages and groups, according to Klingová. And while many disinformation outlets are domestic in nature, some direct and indirect links to Russia are “visible,” she said.by GLOBSEC found that 51% of Slovaks agreed Russia was primarily responsible for invading Ukraine. A year later, that number was at merely 41%.
A future Slovak government “could definitely undermine or hinder adoption of effective joint policies and measures at the EU and NATO level,” she warned.Robert Fico, leader of the SMER-SSD party.
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