Slovakia election: Anti-migrant PM seeks third term

Slovaks have begun voting in general elections expected to see Prime Minister Robert Fico handed a third-term on the back of hardline anti-migrant views. Ahead of the poll, Mr Fico had pledged he would not accept “one single Muslim” migrant to largely Christian Slovakia due to security concerns. His government’s tough views echo those of […]

Slovaks have begun voting in general elections expected to see Prime Minister Robert Fico handed a third-term on the back of hardline anti-migrant views.
Ahead of the poll, Mr Fico had pledged he would not accept “one single Muslim” migrant to largely Christian Slovakia due to security concerns. His government’s tough views echo those of Polish, Czech and Hungarian leaders. Slovakia will take over the European Union’s rotating presidency in July.
Opinion polls suggest that the ruling Smer-Social Democracy party is likely to lose the parliamentary majority that it won in 2012, Reuters news agency reports.