Slovak Election Winner to Sign Memorandum With Prospective Government Partners

U.S. News & World Report ^ | 10/11/23 | Reuters

[Redmen4ever]

Slovakia's election winner, the SMER-SSD party of former prime minister Robert Fico, will sign a memorandum of understanding with prospective government partners HLAS and SNS ...

[Redmen4ever]

SMER is a social democrat party, with a conservative social policy and Russophile foreign policy. As expected, it secured the support of SNS, a nationalist and Russophile party. SNS has worked with SMER in the past. In something of a surprise, SMER also gained the support of HLAS, which broke-away from SMER on social and foreign policy. I suspect that SMER and HLAS will work out their difference in foreign policy. I much prefer democracy to its alternative, but whether proportional representation or winner takes all, democracy can be messy.

[Deplorable American1776]

Since I’m not up on my Slovak political parties, is SMER the good (freedom loving) guys?

[Redmen4ever]

I’d describe SMER as a social democrat party in terms of economic policy, a conservative party in terms of social policy and a Russophilic party.

If that floats your boat, great.

Me, I like the parties in opposition, center-right and Europhilic to various degrees. In particular, SAS, libertarian and soft Euroskeptic.

I am happy Slovakia doesn’t have any hard-line left or green parties. So, maybe they’re all good.

[BobL]

“Since I’m not up on my Slovak political parties, is SMER the good (freedom loving) guys?”

If I’m reading this coalition right, then “think Hungary”, so yes. This would be the first full shift from pro-Ukraine to anti-Ukraine in Europe.