Slovakia accused Russia of interfering in last weekend’s elections, which were won by populist Robert Fico, one of whose election theses was to stop military aid to Ukraine.
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AFP writes about this.
Accusations of Moscow’s interference in the process of expression of will came after statements by the director of Moscow’s Foreign Intelligence Service, who claimed that the pro-Ukrainian centrist party Progressive Slovakia was a proxy of the United States. In the end, Progressive Slovakia came in second place with 18% of the votes against 23% for Smer-SD Fico.
We consider such deliberately spread disinformation to be unacceptable Russian interference in the electoral process in the Slovak Republic,” the Slovak Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The Foreign Ministry yesterday summoned an employee of the Russian embassy and called on Moscow to “stop disinformation activities directed against Slovakia.”
During the election campaign, Fico, 59, promised that Slovakia, which is a NATO member, would not send Ukraine “any ammunition” and called for better relations with the Russian Federation.
US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said Washington was “in close contact with our Slovak counterparts on this issue.”
Earlier in the day, Slovakia’s liberal President Zuzana Caputova tasked Fico with forming a new government, citing the need to respect the results of democratic elections.
Let us remind you that Fico’s party received 42 seats in the 150-seat parliament and now must find coalition partners to form a majority government. Fico said that “Slovakia and the people in Slovakia have bigger problems than Ukraine.”
Source: Racurs
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