It has been acting in an administrative capacity since then.įinal, unofficial results showed Smer took 44.4 percent of the vote on Saturday, giving it 83 of parliament’s 150 seats. The former lawyer’s sweeping victory knocks the SDKU-led coalition of Mikulas Dzurinda from power in the early election, called after the cabinet fell apart in a row over the euro rescue fund last October after just 15 months in office.
desires to maintain the euro zone and the euro as a strong European currency,” Fico said at his party headquarters, to the cheers and applause of supporters. “The European Union can lean on Smer because we realise that Slovakia, as a small country living in Europe and wanting to live in Europe.
They were upset by a refusal by the outgoing centre-right coalition to contribute to the first bailout of Greece and the delaying of plans to beef up a rescue fund for troubled countries. REUTERS/Martin Baumann/TASR/Handoutįico’s centre-left Smer party won a majority in parliament and the prime minister in waiting said he would uphold the outgoing government’s commitment to cut the central European country’s budget gap and support steps to strengthen the euro zone.Ī government led by the 47-year-old europhile, who was prime minister between 20, will please Slovakia’s partners. Leader of the left-wing party Smer, Robert Fico is tossed by his colleagues as they celebrate their party's victory at the campaign office in Bratislava, Slovakia March 11, 2012.
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