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Will Slovaks Turn Against Ukraine? — The Potential for Another Hungary in the EU in Slovak Elections
The Slovak parliamentary election is due on the 30th of September, 2023.
Why should outside observers be concerned with the Slovakian election? We are a small country, in the end.
The importance of this election comes from the strategic value ex-PM, Robert Fico, would have in pro-Russian and anti-EU sentiment in the bloc. This would add to existing pressure coming from the Hungarian PM, Viktor Orban, and the turning tide we have seen from Poland’s ruling Law and Justice Party.
With Fico’s election, Ukraine will see less support from the EU.
Let me explain.
NOTE: This blog post has also been released in audio format, on my podcast, Loosely Eastern Europe, which you can listen to here. Thank you for your support.
For listeners who are not aware of Slovakian politics for the last 30 years, since Slovakia’s conception in 1993, here’s a brief highlight of some of the important developments.
Slovakia is a successor state of Czechoslovakia, a country that experienced both Nazi and Soviet yoke. In 1938, when Czech lands were invaded by Nazi forces, Slovakia established its own Nazi puppet state.
