· March, 2012

Stories about Slovakia from March, 2012

Slovakia: Corruption, Parliamentary Elections, and SMER's Comeback

  18 March 2012

The March 10 victory in the Slovak parliamentary elections is not the first one for the SMER-Social Democracy party. Formerly a communist, now a social democrat, the party's leader Robert Fico has won for the third time in a row already. Tibor Blazko provides background on this year's vote and reviews some of the online reactions.