Robert Fico wins yet another Slovakian election.

Chris Wilson · 1 Oct 2023 at 08:23

For the forth time Robert Fico has read the electorate well and has once again won the recent polls in Slovakia, seeing another EU member state with a Right leaning head. Those that scoffed when I said Brussels was in trouble and all was hunky dory may have cause for some more thought...

I wonder where France will head? Marine is looking strong.

Germany is so worried they're trying to actually BAN voting for the AfD party, a tactic that didn't work out so well for them of course, historically speaking <LOL>

Chris Wilson · 1 Oct 2023 at 08:42

Freakbro said:
Yep Chris, the EU is going to collapse.....any time now....just like you predicted in 2016, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23....

The British economy as an ex EU member state is doing better than the number one and number two member states of the EU, Germany and France, which is galling for certain naysayers.

Robert Fico can now black ball NATO membership by The Ukraine, which confers considerable power to a country someone flippantly says they think they may have heard of. Make no mistake Europe is heading to the Right, for various reasons.

Chris Wilson · 1 Oct 2023 at 08:47

Freakbro said:
Mhmm

Inciteful stuff

Chris Wilson · 1 Oct 2023 at 08:52

Freakbro said:
Yep Chris, the EU is going to collapse.....any time now....just like you predicted in 2016, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23....

In a world of expected instant gratification 8 years is considered an eternity by the short sighted, but is but a **** stride in time in terms of European history.

Chris Wilson · 1 Oct 2023 at 08:56

StriderX said:
Yet the average brit will tell you they're objectively poorer.

Growth for a few thieves and con artists at the top of this **** pile is not growth for everyone else.

You could shorten your day, perhaps allowing for some more worthwhile and profitable occupations, as well as simplifying your postings, by just having a signature blaming all global ills on "The government".

Chris Wilson · 1 Oct 2023 at 08:58

Quartz said:
If I've read the BBC article correctly he now controls the largest party but not an absolute majority.

And what's the story of his opposition to Ukraine?

Robert Fico's very electoral mantra at the core of his campaign was the statement "Not another single bullet" (for Ukraine).

Chris Wilson · 1 Oct 2023 at 09:00

Freakbro said:
That's not what you said when you made the predictions, it was all imminent with Le Pen, Afd, Wilders all sweeping to power at their next elections. I appreciate the comforting lies and revisionism you have to say to yourself to keep your little fantasies alive, but to the rest of us you're just the old man shouting at clouds while wearing his doomladen sandwich board.

Excellent, nothing to worry yourself about then

Chris Wilson · 1 Oct 2023 at 17:01

Quartz said:
Well yes, but why?

A quick Google search turns up these recently cited reasons:

In campaigning, he stressed concern about a rise in the number of migrants passing through Slovakia to Western Europe. Fico's views reflect traditionally warm sentiments towards Russia among many Slovaks, which have gathered strength on social media since the Ukraine war started.
The Guardian said:
The 59-year-old, whose pro-Moscow stance has sparked fears Slovakia will join Hungary and its authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán in challenging the EU’s consensus on support for Kyiv, added: “People in Slovakia have bigger problems than Ukraine.”

Fico has leaned close to Orbán, who congratulated him on his victory on Sunday. “Guess who’s back!” the Hungarian prime minister said on X, formerly known as Twitter. “Always good to work together with a patriot. Looking forward to it.”

Fico said his party was “not changing [its view] that we are prepared to help Ukraine in a humanitarian way … We are prepared to help with the reconstruction of the state. But you know our opinion on arming Ukraine.”