Slovakia's president says he will ask outgoing Prime Minister Robert Fico, the winner of Saturday's parliamentary election, to try to form a new government.
Bratislava, March 7 : Mikaela Shiffrin from the United States won the slalom competition of the Women's Alpine Skiing World Cup in Jasna in the Northern Slovakia. Shiffrin on Sunday finished 2.36 seconds ahead of Wendy Holdener from Switzerland in second place.
To form a new government in Slovakia will be very difficult because of the splintered general election results, while a stable cabinet is important for the Czech Republic, too, because Slovakia will preside the EU in the latter half of the year, Czech politicians agreed yesterday.
The new parliament will be extremely fragmented, with neo-Nazi and protest parties present, leading to speculation about early elections. EurActiv Slovakia reports.
Slovakia's election result has taken politicians and broad public by surprise. The party of prime minister Robert Fico came first in the vote on Saturday but secured only a third of the seats in a parliament divided between nine parties.
The outcome of Slovakia’s general elections over the weekend, which left
the established parties badly weakened and opened the door to several
newcomers including a far-right party, has evoked concern in the Czech
As Prime Minister Robert Fico begins the difficult task of building a majority coalition, there's shock in Slovakia at the real sensation of this election: the strong showing by Marian Kotleba and his ultra-nationalist People's Party-Our Slovakia.
A suicide bomber on Sunday rammed his explosives-laden fuel truck into a security checkpoint south of Baghdad, killing at least 47 people and wounding dozens, officials said, the latest episode in an uptick in violence in the war-ravaged country.
