Episode 90: Slovak elections: Who Is to Blame for Robert Ficos Return?

Published: Sept. 22, 2023, 6 a.m.

Slovak voters head to the polls on the 30th September for early parliamentary elections. One of the winners looks set to be former Prime Minister Robert Fico - forced out after the 2018 murder of an investigative journalist - and now helped along by alt-right and pro-Kremlin narratives. So what happened? From covid to the war in Ukraine, Zuzana Kepplov\xe1 unpacks the last few years of Slovak politics and explains how Igor Matovi\u010d and his SMER party, who took over after 2018, have laid the groundwork for this far-right comeback.\xa0


Written by Zuzana Kepplov\xe1.

Read by Julia Lagoutte.

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